From: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] initramfs: drop comment against multiple formats
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 10:56:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87womrspw4.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190126001901.3090-1-vivien.didelot@gmail.com> (Vivien Didelot's message of "Fri, 25 Jan 2019 19:19:01 -0500")
>>>>> "Vivien" == Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@gmail.com> writes:
> This patch removes an old comment against having multiple filesystem
> formats which doesn't bring any value.
> It is also wrong per-se: one may want to use Buildroot to prepare a
> custom distribution containing a kernel+initramfs and a persistent
> default rootfs to pivot to.
Yes, but in that case the final persistent rootfs would contain
different files than the initramfs, right?
E.G. I handle such a use case by two different defconfigs, one building
the Linux kernel + initramfs and another for the final persistent
rootfs.
> Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@gmail.com>
> ---
> fs/initramfs/Config.in | 5 -----
> 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
> diff --git a/fs/initramfs/Config.in b/fs/initramfs/Config.in
> index 9d5a3f92e6..42a9d60524 100644
> --- a/fs/initramfs/Config.in
> +++ b/fs/initramfs/Config.in
> @@ -13,10 +13,5 @@ config BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_INITRAMFS
> is used, regardless of how buildroot's cpio archive is
> configured.
> - Note that enabling initramfs together with another filesystem
> - formats doesn't make sense: you would end up having two
> - identical root filesystems, one embedded inside the kernel
> - image, and one separately.
> -
> comment "initramfs needs a Linux kernel to be built"
> depends on !BR2_LINUX_KERNEL
> --
> 2.20.1
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--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-26 9:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-26 0:19 [Buildroot] [PATCH] initramfs: drop comment against multiple formats Vivien Didelot
2019-01-26 9:56 ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
2019-01-26 16:59 ` Vivien Didelot
2019-06-23 16:09 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2019-06-25 15:14 ` Vivien Didelot
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