From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265294AbUBIRyc (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2004 12:54:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265298AbUBIRy0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2004 12:54:26 -0500 Received: from dsl-082-083-132-139.arcor-ip.net ([82.83.132.139]:64134 "EHLO server1.intern.kubla.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265294AbUBIRyW (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Feb 2004 12:54:22 -0500 Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:54:21 +0100 From: Dominik Kubla To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Thomas Horsten , Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: New mailing list for 2.6 Medley RAID (Silicon Image 3112 etc.) BIOS RAID development Message-ID: <20040209175421.GD1795@intern.kubla.de> References: <4027BBDE.1090300@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4027BBDE.1090300@pobox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 11:57:02AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Thomas Horsten wrote: > >My gut feeling is that if it is provided by the BIOS and reliable > >autodetection is possible, it should be autodetected. Why require the user > >to discover and supply information that the kernel could easily and > >reliably find out by itself? Besides, if there is no autodetection, the > > The autodetection will occur, reliably and without additional user > information, from initramfs. > > As Arjan said, we are moving this type of stuff out of the kernel. > > Jeff Is there any existing code using initramfs? So far all i have seen is very incomplete. I would love to move to initramfs and get rid of mkinitrd, but too many pieces seem to be still missing... Regards, Dominik Kubla -- The more cordial the buyer's secretary, the greater the odds that the competition already has the order.