From: Craig Christophel <merlin@transgeek.com>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 00:46:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011218014358.C1ACBC7382@smtp.transgeek.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0112172059510.6100-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0112172059510.6100-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
On Monday 17 December 2001 21:31, Alexander Viro wrote:
> There is a word for that and that word is "crap".
>
> Let loader leave an archive to be unpacked into rootfs? Sure. Let kernel
> exec /init on rootfs and leave the rest to it? Absolutely. But let's
> stop adding userland stuff into the kernel.
I agree 100%. there are several other popular systems that try to do
everything in-kernel and it adds to the instability overall, besides it gives
less freedom to customize with standard tools.
Craig.
Loading modules _can_ be
> done from userland - insmod does it just fine. And that's where it should
> be done.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-18 5:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-17 22:10 Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file Grover, Andrew
2001-12-18 2:31 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-18 5:46 ` Craig Christophel [this message]
2001-12-23 0:28 ` Dave Cinege
2001-12-23 0:44 ` Dave Cinege
2001-12-23 1:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-23 2:10 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-23 3:00 ` Dave Cinege
2001-12-23 3:52 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-23 4:41 ` Ryan Cumming
2001-12-23 5:52 ` Dave Cinege
2001-12-23 7:16 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2001-12-23 8:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-23 12:22 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-12-23 20:58 ` Erik Mouw
2001-12-23 9:14 ` tar vs cpio (was: Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file) H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-22 19:53 ` T. A.
2001-12-23 19:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-23 9:51 ` Ryan Cumming
2001-12-23 9:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-23 12:01 ` Wichert Akkerman
2001-12-23 14:28 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-23 19:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-23 20:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-18 15:26 ` Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file / Making Linux multiboot capable and grub loading kernel modules at boot time Christian Koenig
2001-12-18 18:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-12-23 7:20 Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file Grover, Andrew
2001-12-23 9:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-12-23 9:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-23 21:24 ` Eric W. Biederman
[not found] <Pine.GSO.4.21.0112190313080.9963-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
2001-12-19 8:47 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-12-19 14:55 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-19 15:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-12-19 17:03 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-19 19:01 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-12-20 3:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-18 20:35 Torrey Hoffman
2001-12-18 19:50 Grover, Andrew
2001-12-18 20:26 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-18 20:30 ` M. R. Brown
2001-12-18 20:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-19 9:34 ` James A Sutherland
2001-12-23 1:02 ` Dave Cinege
2001-12-23 9:10 ` James A Sutherland
2001-12-19 14:13 ` Erik Mouw
2001-12-18 17:47 Grover, Andrew
2001-12-18 18:53 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-18 19:43 ` David Weinehall
2001-12-18 17:43 Grover, Andrew
2001-12-18 18:45 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-18 18:49 ` Greg KH
[not found] <Pine.GSO.4.21.0112180350550.6100-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
2001-12-18 11:16 ` James A Sutherland
2001-12-18 19:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-19 9:27 ` James A Sutherland
2001-12-19 10:11 ` Erik Andersen
2001-12-23 0:39 ` Dave Cinege
2001-12-23 0:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-23 1:15 ` Dave Cinege
2001-12-23 1:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-23 2:08 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-17 19:53 Grover, Andrew
2001-12-17 20:26 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-16 20:37 Otto Wyss
2001-12-16 20:50 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-17 18:49 ` Otto Wyss
2001-12-17 19:07 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-12-20 18:47 ` Otto Wyss
2001-12-16 21:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-16 22:02 ` antirez
2001-12-16 22:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-23 0:08 ` Dave Cinege
2001-12-23 6:26 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-12-23 13:48 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-23 17:57 ` Dave Cinege
2001-12-23 23:05 ` Marcus Meissner
2001-12-24 2:38 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-27 10:58 ` Wilfried Weissmann
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