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On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 10:13:49AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> This is a resurrection of a patch series from a few years back, first
> brought to the dm maintainers in 2010. It creates a way to define dm
> devices on the kernel command line for systems that do not use an
> initramfs, or otherwise need a dm running before init starts.
> 
> This has been used by Chrome OS for several years, and now by Brillo
> (and likely Android soon).
> 
> The last version was v4:
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/104860/
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/104861/
 
Inconsistencies in the terminology here can be sorted out during review,
and I see that you've taken on board some of my review comments from
2010, but what are your responses to the rest of them?

Alasdair