linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] Introduce a 'recovery' command line option

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Date:	Tue, 16 Aug 2016 10:15:59 +0300
From:	Janne Karhunen <janne.karhunen@...il.com>
To:	Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Introduce a 'recovery' command line option

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 10:04 AM, Richard Weinberger
<richard.weinberger@...il.com> wrote:

> Why are you moving this feature into the kernel?
> To support such advanced features we have the initramfs.
>
> dracut has already rootfallback=.

For saving some precious boot-up time (my systems run without initrd)
and to unify the solutions. If kernel does this bootloaders and
initrds don't have to care.

--
Janne