From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hannes Reinecke Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:43:33 +0000 Subject: Passing information from initramfs to real rootfs Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Hi all, is it possible to get information out of initramfs to be passed to the=20 real root fs? Currently initramfs is 'magically' mounted during boot, but vanished=20 equally magically as soon as the root device is mounted. Is there a way=20 planned/provided as to how information gathered/generated during the=20 boot process can be passed to the real root-fs? I'm thinking especially on udev and friends; udev could handle=20 hotplug-events during boot-up from initramfs, but the devices generated=20 cannot be passed to the real root-device, so essentially we have to=20 re-scan sysfs to find and generate all events which might have been=20 generated during boot and pass them to udev _again_. Nothing gained there; we can as well let it be handled entirely during=20 init as it is done now. Easiest solution would be to have it moved initrd-style to /initramfs or=20 somesuch, then we could easily access it und umount it (i.e. free the=20 memory) as soon as we're done with the processing. Comments? Enlightenments? Cheers, Hannes --=20 Dr. Hannes Reinecke hare@suse.de SuSE Linux AG S390 & zSeries Deutschherrnstr. 15-19 +49 911 74053 688 90429 N=FCrnberg http://www.suse.de ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: ApacheCon 2003, 16-19 November in Las Vegas. Learn firsthand the latest developments in Apache, PHP, Perl, XML, Java, MySQL, WebDAV, and more! http://www.apachecon.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel