linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5] init: Disable defaults if init= fails

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Date:	Mon, 20 Oct 2014 14:42:07 -0700
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
	Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@...il.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	Shuah Khan <shuah.kh@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] init: Disable defaults if init= fails

On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 14:34:14 -0700 Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Andrew Morton
>> <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 14:01:55 -0700 Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >> > IOW, the no-fallback behavior is easy to implement, easy to
>> >> > understand, and has extremely predictable behavior.  The fallback
>> >> > behavior is more user friendly if you consider having a chance of
>> >> > booting to something useful if you typo your init= option (but also a
>> >> > chance of booting to something actively undesirable).
>> >>
>> >> Here's an alternative proposal: how about we change the default
>> >> *without* a Kconfig option, see if anyone screams, and if they do, we
>> >> add that code back in under a Kconfig option as in your current patch?
>> >>
>> >> Would that make your Kconfig senses stop tingling, Andrew? :)
>> >
>> > Mumble.  I suppose we can run with it as-is: at least the config option
>> > is there to allow people to repair any damage easily.
>> >
>> > However we don't have any way of remembering to remove the config
>> > option later coz someone removed feature-removal-schedule.txt, which
>> > was a useful feature.
>>
>> Does -mm have a next+1 section?  If so, you could queue it up now :)
>
> Yes, I can do that.  I add little notes-to-self in the series file to
> remember such things.

Should I send you a patch, or do you want to write it yourself?

--Andy

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Andy Lutomirski
AMA Capital Management, LLC
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