Re: rdshell and rdbreak

[Dave Young <dyoung-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

On 09/29/2011 05:20 PM, Dave Young wrote:

> On 09/29/2011 04:24 PM, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> 
>> On 09/29/2011 08:43 AM, Dave Young wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> For kernel developers sometimes boot-test need a minimal initrd, so just
>>> drop into a shell is a nice feature.
>>>
>>> The first impression of param 'rdshell' to me is it will drop me into a
>>> shell, but It doesn't. It drop into shell only when initramfs fails.
>>>
>>> The rdbreak is more near what I want, but it still fails when no root
>>> args set in cmdline.
>>>
>>> IMO initrd can provide such options at least: dropping into shell
>>> without mount rootfs, user can mount by himself or do other things.
>>>
>>> Thus, if it make sense how about add a:
>>> rdbreak=force
>>>
>>> OTOH, rdshell can be merged into rdbreak as:
>>> rdbreak=fail
>>>
>>> Any comments about this?
>>
>> what about "rdshell rdbreak=cmdline" or
>> in new syntax "rd.shell=1 rd.break=cmdline" ??
> 
> 
> Thanks for comment, harald
> 
> I think it's still not so convenience to use two params for this issue,
> and 'cmdline' also looks a little confuse for me. But it's up to you so
> long as we can managed to have this feature.


Just tested, It works gracefully, thanks

see cmdline means break before cmdline, It is clear enough also

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Thanks
Dave