linux-kernel - Re: Subject:[PATCH 1:1] boot paramer "root=" gets a list of devices

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Date:	Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:22:36 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	rbenyehuda@...z.com
CC:	"wad@...omium.org" <wad@...omium.org>,
	"kay.sievers@...y.org" <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Rasty Slutsker <RSlutsker@...z.com>,
	Lior Brafman <LBrafman@...z.com>, raziebe@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Subject:[PATCH 1:1] boot paramer "root=" gets a list of devices

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

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