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From: Raz Ben Yehuda <rbenyehuda@manz.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "wad@chromium.org" <wad@chromium.org>,
	"kay.sievers@vrfy.org" <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
	Rasty Slutsker <RSlutsker@manz.com>,
	Lior Brafman <LBrafman@manz.com>, <raziebe@gmail.com>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Subject:[PATCH 1:1] boot paramer "root=" gets a list of devices
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:19:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1323962398.11872.3.camel@raz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EEA0C05.4030907@zytor.com>

On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 16:02 +0100, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 12/15/2011 01:13 AM, Raz Ben Yehuda wrote:
> > From: Raz ben yehuda<rbenyehuda@manz.com>
> >
> > Patch is aimed to bypass the need for initramfs when it is not
> > known which disk has the root file system.
> >
> > Example: The kernel boot parameter "root=/dev/sda1,/dev/sdc1,/dev/sdb4".
> > Check if /dev/sda1 exists ,if /dev/sda1 does not exist then try
> > /dev/sdc1 an so on upto the first a device that exists ( ROOT_DEV != 0 ),
> > else use the last device as the mount device.
> >
> > patch is on top of 3.2-rc5.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Raz Ben Yehuda<rbenyehuda@manz.com>
> >
> 
> To which point I have to ask, once again, at which point we stop putting 
> this stuff in the kernel to "bypass the need for initramfs"...
because there are times where we cannot use initramfs. is this a problem
with way i phrase or with with the whole idea ?  

> 	-hpa



       reply	other threads:[~2011-12-15 15:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1323940396.16032.2.camel@raz>
     [not found] ` <4EEA0C05.4030907@zytor.com>
2011-12-15 15:19   ` Raz Ben Yehuda [this message]
2011-12-15 15:22     ` Subject:[PATCH 1:1] boot paramer "root=" gets a list of devices H. Peter Anvin
2011-12-15 18:11       ` Kay Sievers
2011-12-18  8:54         ` Raz Ben Yehuda
2012-01-04 17:48           ` Will Drewry
2011-12-15  9:17 Raz Ben Yehuda

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