Eric W. Biederman wrote: > For detecting devices especially in the case that takes > a while that isn't something we need to do early > in the boot process.
Yes, but I'd rather have a generic mechanism that works in all reasonable cases. Things have a tendency of growing in the oddest directions. E.g. when introducing the boot command line, all I had in mind was to have a way to boot single-user mode :-) > Well the data structure is still yet to be defined. The > question you raised is how to pass it. Err yes, that's what I wanted to say :) Some new mechanism to pass the data, or a weird data structure instead of (as opposed to be on) initrd/initramfs. > Something like that. I have yet to see a even a proof of concept > of the idea of passing device information, to clean up probes. Yes, the kexec-based boot loader first, then this. For a kexec-based boot loader, passing device scan results will be very useful, plus it's a good environment for experimenting with such a feature. - Werner -- _________________________________________________________________________ / Werner Almesberger, Buenos Aires, Argentina [EMAIL PROTECTED] / /_http://www.almesberger.net/____________________________________________/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
