From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Matt_Domsch@Dell.com, greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Removal of pci_find_* in 2.5
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 15:33:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D308080.20306@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3D307F68.7080703@mandrakesoft.com
Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Everything you are saying here just convinces me more than we should do
> this stuff in initramfs. At the summit Linus endorsed using
> /sbin/hotplug when storage devices appear... combine that with
> initramfs, and you should have all you need to handle whatever complex
> scenario you come up with. It sounds straightforward to have some
> find-the-root-device code in initramfs that can contain "if
> (dell_mainboard)" code all over the place.
IOW, strive to make order of kernel device initialization irrelevant --
init the kernel drivers, then figure out the boot device.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-13 19:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-13 4:04 Removal of pci_find_* in 2.5 Matt_Domsch
2002-07-13 4:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-07-13 5:09 ` Greg KH
2002-07-13 14:35 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-13 15:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-07-13 17:06 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-13 19:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-07-13 19:33 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-07-16 19:23 Matt_Domsch
2002-07-13 13:13 Matt_Domsch
2002-07-13 0:36 Greg KH
2002-07-13 2:23 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-13 1:12 ` David S. Miller
2002-07-13 14:46 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-13 20:52 ` David S. Miller
2002-07-13 13:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-07-15 5:25 ` David S. Miller
2002-07-16 0:26 ` Greg KH
2002-07-14 20:07 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-07-16 0:25 ` Greg KH
2002-07-16 10:56 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-07-16 17:33 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-07-17 12:41 ` Eric W. Biederman
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