From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: rbenyehuda@manz.com
Cc: "wad@chromium.org" <wad@chromium.org>,
"kay.sievers@vrfy.org" <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
Rasty Slutsker <RSlutsker@manz.com>,
Lior Brafman <LBrafman@manz.com>,
raziebe@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Subject:[PATCH 1:1] boot paramer "root=" gets a list of devices
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:22:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EEA10BC.3000906@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1323962398.11872.3.camel@raz>
On 12/15/2011 07:19 AM, Raz Ben Yehuda wrote:
>>
>> To which point I have to ask, once again, at which point we stop putting
>> this stuff in the kernel to "bypass the need for initramfs"...
> because there are times where we cannot use initramfs. is this a problem
> with way i phrase or with with the whole idea ?
>
There are problems with the whole concept of "cannot use initramfs". We
allow the initramfs to be integrated with the kernel image for a reason,
for example.
I'm obviously ranting on this in part to make people think about what
they are doing, and partly to remind that the more complex the in-kernel
root-mounting code get, the more it might be worth reconsidering klibc
in the kernel build tree.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-15 15:22 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <1323940396.16032.2.camel@raz>
[not found] ` <4EEA0C05.4030907@zytor.com>
2011-12-15 15:19 ` Raz Ben Yehuda
2011-12-15 15:22 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2011-12-15 18:11 ` Kay Sievers
2011-12-18 8:54 ` Raz Ben Yehuda
2012-01-04 17:48 ` Will Drewry
2011-12-15 9:17 Raz Ben Yehuda
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