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From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>,
	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>,
	dm-devel@redhat.com, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>,
	Dan Ehrenberg <dehrenberg@chromium.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>,
	Vishnu Pratap Singh <vishnu.ps@samsung.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Yaowei Bai <baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>,
	David Zeuthen <zeuthen@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] init: add support to directly boot to a mapped device
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 22:08:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160221220839.GD16166@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1455992032-14594-1-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org>

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 10:13:49AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> This is a resurrection of a patch series from a few years back, first
> brought to the dm maintainers in 2010. It creates a way to define dm
> devices on the kernel command line for systems that do not use an
> initramfs, or otherwise need a dm running before init starts.
> 
> This has been used by Chrome OS for several years, and now by Brillo
> (and likely Android soon).
> 
> The last version was v4:
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/104860/
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/104861/
 
Inconsistencies in the terminology here can be sorted out during review,
and I see that you've taken on board some of my review comments from
2010, but what are your responses to the rest of them?

Alasdair

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-02-21 22:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-20 18:13 [PATCH v5 0/3] init: add support to directly boot to a mapped device Kees Cook
2016-02-20 18:13 ` [PATCH v5 1/3] dm: export a table+mapped device to the ioctl interface Kees Cook
2016-02-20 18:13 ` [PATCH v5 2/3] dm: make mapped_device locking functions available Kees Cook
2016-02-20 18:13 ` [PATCH v5 3/3] init: add support to directly boot to a mapped device Kees Cook
2016-02-21 22:08 ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
2016-02-22 18:55   ` [PATCH v5 0/3] " Kees Cook
2016-02-26 16:53     ` Mike Snitzer
2016-02-26 18:52       ` Kees Cook
2016-02-26 19:21         ` Mike Snitzer
2016-02-26 19:59           ` Kees Cook
2016-02-26 20:47             ` Mike Snitzer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-11-17  6:55 Barry Kauler
2016-11-17 23:04 ` Barry Kauler

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