linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3][try 1] init: enable system-on-initramfs

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Date:	Sat, 14 Jul 2007 13:35:10 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3][try 1] init: enable system-on-initramfs

Bodo Eggert wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jul 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Bodo Eggert wrote:
> 
>>> Setting the name of the rdinit process to the name of the init process
>>> in order to select the root device should not be the right knob.
>>>
>> What's wrong with it?
> 
> rdinit is supposed to be the program that mounts, root is supposed to be 
> whatever is mounted and init is supposed to run the system. Three 
> different things. Now if you want to change the third, just set the first 
> to the second ...

That only applies to a model that you explicitly doesn't want to use.

	-hpa
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