From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754432AbXKSFmJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:42:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751389AbXKSFl5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:41:57 -0500 Received: from [212.12.190.176] ([212.12.190.176]:45877 "EHLO raad.intranet" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751053AbXKSFl4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:41:56 -0500 From: Al Boldi To: "H. Peter Anvin" , Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> Subject: Re: [PATCH][retry-2] init: Introduce rootdir bootparm to select which dir to sys_chroot Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:40:53 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org References: <9qVOO-4ZK-13@gated-at.bofh.it> <4740D28E.7080800@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <4740D28E.7080800@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200711190840.53967.a1426z@gawab.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org H. Peter Anvin wrote: > a. For as long as we keep throwing more crap into the kernel, kinit will > not get merged, because it "provides no new functionality." I'm not really familiar with kinit, but it sounds unfair to hinder new features because it would reduce the usefulness of another project. kinit should have nothing to fear, as its purpose would not be to add new features, but rather to modularize the boot process, by replacing the current init, and thus allow for more flexibility to add/modify features. Thanks! -- Al