From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>,
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Subject: Re: changeset: Make forced module loading optional
Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 08:01:49 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0805050801120.32269@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <481F1EB3.3040906@garzik.org>
On Mon, 5 May 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> 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.
Right. Which is why I build the stuff into my kernel that is required, and
then initrd can do whatever it damn well pleases.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-05 15:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-05 4:55 changeset: Make forced module loading optional Rusty Russell
2008-05-05 5:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-05 5:35 ` Rusty Russell
2008-05-05 17:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-05 18:42 ` Rusty Russell
2008-05-05 19:47 ` David Miller
2008-05-05 6:43 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-05 14:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-05 14:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-05-05 15:01 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2008-05-05 15:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-05 15:32 ` Dave Jones
2008-05-05 15:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-05 16:01 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-05 15:57 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-05 6:35 ` Jan Engelhardt
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