From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
Cc: Lincoln Dale <ltd@cisco.com>,
"Bill Rugolsky Jr." <brugolsky@telemetry-investments.com>,
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
Joe Thornber <thornber@sistina.com>,
Linux Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Device-mapper submission for 2.4
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 06:35:45 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031210063545.GD4176@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031210061213.GA4368@alpha.home.local>
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 07:12:13AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> And what next ? people will ask "marcelo, please include initramfs support,
> it will help us migrating", "marcelo, it's annoying to support both
> module-init-tools and modutils, please accept this patch to change all modules
> to 2.6 format", "marcelo, my usb memory stick is only supported in 2.6, please
> include it in 2.4 so that I can use it to backup my system in case 2.6 crashes",
> "marcelo, please include preempt, it's already in 2.6 and my desktop feels
> smoother with it"...
Heh. Actually, 99% of initramfs support is there - the only piece missing
is unpack_to_rootfs(). IOW, rootfs is there in the same way as on 2.6,
but it isn't pre-populated. By now it's too late, but a couple of months
ago it would be a trivial enough for backport - init/initramfs.c is
self-contained and it would be a matter of copying several kilobytes of
stuff in 2.4 + adding a section to ld script (same on all architectures)
+ adding one line in init/main.c. It's nowhere near as intrusive as other
changes on the list (including dm), but it *is* too late for any of that
stuff in 2.4.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-10 6:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-09 11:58 Device-mapper submission for 2.4 Joe Thornber
2003-12-09 12:24 ` [Patch 1/4] fs.h: b_journal_head Joe Thornber
2003-12-09 23:46 ` Nathan Scott
2003-12-10 8:46 ` Joe Thornber
2003-12-10 12:06 ` Nathan Scott
2003-12-09 12:25 ` [Patch 2/4] dm: mempool backport Joe Thornber
2003-12-09 12:26 ` [Patch 3/4] dm: core files Joe Thornber
2003-12-09 12:26 ` [Patch 4/4] dm: ioctl interface Joe Thornber
2003-12-09 13:15 ` Device-mapper submission for 2.4 Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-09 13:45 ` Joe Thornber
2003-12-09 14:00 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-12-09 14:10 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2003-12-09 14:21 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-12-09 14:16 ` Joe Thornber
2003-12-09 14:24 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2003-12-09 14:10 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-09 14:34 ` Joe Thornber
2003-12-09 21:07 ` Paul Jakma
2003-12-09 22:26 ` Joe Thornber
2003-12-09 22:48 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-09 23:46 ` Paul Jakma
2003-12-09 23:58 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-10 0:15 ` Paul Jakma
2003-12-10 11:49 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-12-10 23:15 ` Dave Jones
2003-12-10 0:27 ` Jose Luis Domingo Lopez
2003-12-10 0:59 ` Tupshin Harper
2003-12-10 9:40 ` Wichert Akkerman
2003-12-10 2:44 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-12-10 15:55 ` Paul Jakma
2003-12-10 16:54 ` venom
2003-12-10 17:00 ` Paul Jakma
2003-12-10 17:14 ` venom
2003-12-10 23:40 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-11 19:48 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2003-12-16 19:15 ` bill davidsen
2003-12-16 19:01 ` bill davidsen
2003-12-10 8:45 ` Jens Axboe
2003-12-10 17:30 ` Paul Jakma
2003-12-10 17:44 ` Joe Thornber
2003-12-10 17:48 ` venom
2003-12-10 18:07 ` Paul Jakma
2003-12-10 19:30 ` Jens Axboe
2003-12-09 17:02 ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2003-12-09 22:53 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2003-12-10 3:38 ` Lincoln Dale
2003-12-10 6:12 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-12-10 6:35 ` viro [this message]
2003-12-09 17:45 ` Kevin Corry
2003-12-09 19:47 ` Paul P Komkoff Jr
2003-12-09 14:23 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2003-12-09 14:36 ` Joe Thornber
2003-12-09 19:50 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-09 21:13 ` Paul Jakma
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2003-12-10 0:49 Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
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