From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765285AbXGNUf0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:35:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761280AbXGNUfR (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:35:17 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:33954 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763039AbXGNUfP (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:35:15 -0400 Message-ID: <4699337E.2060908@zytor.com> Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 13:35:10 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3][try 1] init: enable system-on-initramfs References: <4697D6EB.5020404@zytor.com> <469801B7.7010909@zytor.com> <469919D5.3070709@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Bodo Eggert wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jul 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Bodo Eggert wrote: > >>> Setting the name of the rdinit process to the name of the init process >>> in order to select the root device should not be the right knob. >>> >> What's wrong with it? > > rdinit is supposed to be the program that mounts, root is supposed to be > whatever is mounted and init is supposed to run the system. Three > different things. Now if you want to change the third, just set the first > to the second ... That only applies to a model that you explicitly doesn't want to use. -hpa