Re: [PATCH v5] init: Disable defaults if init= fails

josh
2014-10-01T18:05:19Z

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 09:53:56PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> I significantly prefer default N. Scripts that play with init= really
> don't want the fallback, and I can imagine contexts in which it could
> be a security problem.

While I certainly would prefer the non-fallback behavior for init as
well, standard kernel practice has typically been to use "default y" for
previously built-in features that become configurable. And I'd
certainly prefer a compile-time configuration option like this (even
with default y) over a "strictinit" kernel command-line option.

- Josh Triplett