Re: Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file

Craig Christophel
2001-12-18T05:44:48Z

On Monday 17 December 2001 21:31, Alexander Viro wrote:
> There is a word for that and that word is "crap".
>
> Let loader leave an archive to be unpacked into rootfs?  Sure.  Let kernel
> exec /init on rootfs and leave the rest to it?  Absolutely.  But let's
> stop adding userland stuff into the kernel.

I agree 100%. there are several other popular systems that try to do
everything in-kernel and it adds to the instability overall, besides it gives
less freedom to customize with standard tools.

Craig.

Loading modules _can_ be
> done from userland - insmod does it just fine.  And that's where it should
> be done.