Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] ns16550: Add command line parsing adjustments

[Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jan Beulich writes ("Re: [PATCH v2] ns16550: Add command line parsing 
adjustments"):
> On 06.01.17 at 17:24, <swapnil.paratey@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, as you may have seen, things are getting complicated here:
> The two currently-last elements are permitted only with
> CONFIG_HAS_PCI, so by adding the new fields to the end we'd
> end up having two syntaxes (one with and one without PCI
> support). I therefore have to modify my original proposal, and
> ask for the addition to be done earlier, perhaps - using a
> separator other than comma (maybe colon or semicolon) - with
> the [<io-base>|pci|amt] element (as that's really the item
> (possibly implicitly) specifying the I/O range, which you mean to
> amend.

Why not introduce the concept of names for these endlessly multiplying
parameters ?

Ian.

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