Am 17.09.2015 um 19:49 schrieb Drew DeVault: >> I really don't see why we need this feature in-kernel as it can be >> done perfectly fine >> in userspace. Every non-trivial system needs an initramfs anyway these days. > > Most initramfs systems will parse the root= line of your kernel command line > and use it to remount root. The kernel seems like the best place to establish > this, since the various > initramfs solutions will implement the same format just to support parsing > the kernel command line correctly. I mean, maybe that's not enough to justify > putting it in the kernel, > but that's why I see the kernel as the appropriate place to implement this > feature.
Better send a patch to dracut folks. :-) Major distros use it and if the feature is nice other initramfs implementations will adopt it too. Thanks, //richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
