From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: maximilian attems Subject: Re: New rd.* namespace for dracut-008 Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:46:04 +0000 Message-ID: <20101028154604.GA32323@vostochny.stro.at> References: <4CC99414.5060607@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4CC99414.5060607-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Harald Hoyer Cc: initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 05:17:40PM +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote: > I cleaned up the kernel command line parameters and moved them to the > rd.* namespace. The deprecated options are supported until dracut-010 and > will be removed afterwards. > hmm as initramfs-tools hasn't cleaned up it's namespace yet, this is a good point to jump in ask more details: * what does rd stand for? * is it envisaged to be used by other tools (or should initramfs-tools use it.break)? I'd appreciated more info on the background of this move as it can't be painless. thanks. -- maks