From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759581AbYEEOup (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 10:50:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756800AbYEEOuh (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 10:50:37 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:36760 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756736AbYEEOug (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 10:50:36 -0400 Message-ID: <481F1EB3.3040906@garzik.org> Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 10:50:27 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Jan Engelhardt , Rusty Russell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jon Masters , Sam Ravnborg Subject: Re: changeset: Make forced module loading optional References: <200805051455.02723.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.2.4 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > But my point is, I really want to change just the kernel. I don't want to > care what the initrd does, and I don't want to build my own. It's all > "user space" to me - and thus beneath my notice. True, but depending on the distro, the distro may want to load specific userland gadgets into the initrd based on your kernel build. Most kernel hacker situations probably don't need this, but a modern distro these days _does_ want critical-to-boot stuff in initrd like LVM bootstrap programs, iSCSI discovery, Bluetooth userland management, etc. Jeff