From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 23:51:35 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] fs/cpio: add option to manually specify file list In-Reply-To: <20171026191627.18949-2-sconnor@lynx.com> References: <20171026191627.18949-1-sconnor@lynx.com> <20171026191627.18949-2-sconnor@lynx.com> Message-ID: <20180216235135.248cc872@windsurf.lan> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Thu, 26 Oct 2017 12:16:27 -0700, Seamus Connor wrote: > For some systems it may be desireable to have an initramfs that is > smaller than the full root filesystem. This commit adds support for > creating an initramfs based on a manually specified set of files. It is > up to the user to define a sensible set of files. This file list could > either be statically created, or it could be created as the result of a > pre-fs hook script. > > Signed-off-by: Seamus Connor Considering the replies from both Yann and Arnout who were both not very convinced by the approach, and Arnout's idea of using a fakeroot script to achieve the same thing in a more flexible way, I've marked this patch as Rejected in our patch tracking system. Best regards, Thomas Petazzoni -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons) Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://bootlin.com