From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262009AbUCQTlR (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Mar 2004 14:41:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262027AbUCQTlR (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Mar 2004 14:41:17 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:26293 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262009AbUCQTlO (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Mar 2004 14:41:14 -0500 Message-ID: <4058A9CD.7080801@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 14:41:01 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig CC: "Justin T. Gibbs" , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [Fwd: "Enhanced" MD code avaible for review] References: <405899E8.8070806@pobox.com> <20040317183756.GA23667@lst.de> <2241002704.1079549645@aslan.btc.adaptec.com> <20040317190117.GA23968@lst.de> <2260532704.1079550351@aslan.btc.adaptec.com> <20040317190916.GA24118@lst.de> <4058A6FB.6080602@pobox.com> <20040317193416.GA24542@lst.de> In-Reply-To: <20040317193416.GA24542@lst.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 02:28:59PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>If early userspace isn't ready, it sounds like a choice between >>"nothing" and "it works". >> >>We want a clean, tasteful solution, sure. But I think we can work >>within the confines of the existing 2.6 API, and not postpone this stuff >>under early userspace is ready. > > > Umm, early userspace works nicely, you don't need the klibc and > initramfs buzzwords for that, good 'ol initrd still works and people > actually use it, e.g. for dm. Agreed. initrd works in 2.4, too... Jeff