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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mpm@selenic.com,
	viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] skip initramfs check
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:56:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051117145643.70dc5fad.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051117141432.GD9753@logos.cnet>

Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com> wrote:
>
> The initramfs check at populate_rootfs() can consume significant time
> (several seconds) on slow/embedded platforms, since it has to decompress
> the image.
> 
> Add an option to skip it under CONFIG_EMBEDDED.
> 
> Is there a nicer way to achieve the same result?

I'd have thought that a __setup option would be preferable?  Remove an
ifdef, more flexible, and it's all __init code anyway.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-17 22:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-17 14:14 [PATCH] skip initramfs check Marcelo Tosatti
2005-11-17 22:56 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-11-21  7:30 ` Rob Landley
2005-11-21  6:23   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-11-21 15:04     ` Rob Landley
2005-11-21 15:50       ` Matt Mackall
2005-11-21 10:49         ` Marcelo Tosatti

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