Nowadays systemd prefixes all the arguments it reads from /proc/cmdline. This is the correct approach, the kernel owns it's own cmdline, and if other components

Nowadays systemd prefixes all the arguments it reads from /proc/cmdline. This is the correct approach, the kernel owns it's own cmdline, and if other components want to use it they should namespace themselves. It apparently still interprets the global "debug" flag as well: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.html#debug https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.htm...