linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] init/main.c: add warning when file specified in rdinit is inaccessible

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Message-Id: <6325572b-994d-42da-999a-6c98f240301f@app.fastmail.com>
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2025 22:29:02 +0200
From: "Lillian Berry" <lillian@...r-ark.net>
To: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Al Viro" <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] init/main.c: add warning when file specified in rdinit is
 inaccessible

On Sun, Jul 6, 2025, at 10:13 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> "is inaccessible or does not exist", please.
Will update.

> Is the "WARNING: " needed?  It's pr_warn(), which implies that it's a warning.
I saw this on L486 (warn_bootconfig), but can remove.

> It would be good to display the errno itself. 
Yep! I'll add that.

Kindly,
Lillian