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Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 07:37:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de> cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> Subject: Re: changeset: Make forced module loading optional On Mon, 5 May 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > That's not good procedure IMO. You always want to keep a known good > (=booting) kernel, and the distro-provided one might just be that. Yes, I've always had a known-good fallback. So I actually do duplicate the lines and leave unchanged versions in /etc/grub.conf for when things go wrong. But my point is, I really want to change just the kernel. I don't want to care what the initrd does, and I don't want to build my own. It's all "user space" to me - and thus beneath my notice. And the module loading bug was just that - a kernel bug. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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