From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Jones Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/31] Some dracut cleanups and bashification. Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 12:15:21 -0500 Message-ID: <20090209171521.GA3646@redhat.com> References: <5a1ca330d81aeebf879bb7f0950b7ae448f7be22.1234137267.git.victor.lowther@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5a1ca330d81aeebf879bb7f0950b7ae448f7be22.1234137267.git.victor.lowther-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Victor Lowther Cc: initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 04:34:41PM -0800, Victor Lowther wrote: > Hi, I enjoy hacking on system infrastructure and am a bash programming > aficionado. With that in mind, I present this patch series against current > master -- it simplifies several bits of code and shaves about 200 lines out > of the codebase. The final result has been tested on a Fedora 10 box that > uses lvm on top of dm-crypt, and it works fine. I have not tested all > intermediate steps -- life is too short. The introduction of additional bashisms is something I'm not sold on. Others have already expressed concern over what we have already, so I think making it unnecessarily harder to switch to an alternative shell may not be the best plan, especially when the benefits aren't really that great. Thanks for taking the time to get involved though, it's good to see people actually playing with the code. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html