Re: [PATCH] Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /dev

[Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com>]

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On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 12:20 -0400, David Dillow wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 17:46 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:
> > >
> > > It makes the userspace boot process much simpler and easier to maintain,
> > > as well as providing a way to handle rescue disks and images trivially,
> > > and it makes the kernel _less_ dependant on the early userspace bootup
> > > scripts.
> > 
> > As a initrd less kernel user I can really only agree: getting rid
> > of the udev-in-initrd requirement would be a big step forward
> > in usability. Typically I always have to pre populate 
> > a on disk /dev manually first to get my kernels to boot.
> 
> If you use mount by label or UUID, you still need udev (or other tools)
> in the initrd to find the right disk, correct? And for distros that want
> to support that, does this really reduce the amount of code in the
> initrd?
> 
Distros would be then free to experiment with just running "blkid" in
the initramfs to find the root filesystem, rather than the udev daemon
(which runs blkid itself)

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
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