From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Harald Hoyer Subject: Re: New rd.* namespace for dracut-008 Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:53:22 +0200 Message-ID: <4CC99C72.3010101@redhat.com> References: <4CC99414.5060607@redhat.com> <20101028154604.GA32323@vostochny.stro.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20101028154604.GA32323-VJknIhvjf2Ov8OlOgJ4AIV6hYfS7NtTn@public.gmane.org> Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: maximilian attems Cc: initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org On 10/28/2010 05:46 PM, maximilian attems wrote: > 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? "rd" was chosen because we already have "rdinit=" as a kernel parameter > > * is it envisaged to be used by other tools > (or should initramfs-tools use it.break)? Hm, if we can define common kernel command line parameters, that would make the user's life easier. > > I'd appreciated more info on the background of this move as > it can't be painless. > > thanks. >