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From: Olivier Blin <blino@mandriva.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Pascal Terjan <pterjan@mandriva.com>
Subject: Re: [git pull] fastboot tree for v2.6.28
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:26:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m363nhsvcd.fsf@dynamo.mandriva.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48F0B40A.8080007@zytor.com> (H. Peter Anvin's message of "\(unknown date\)")

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:

> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>
>> a config option is definitely useful for users and distros. Having
>> the boot option is a good idea. Arjan, i thought we had a
>> fastboot=0/1 boot option but i cannot find it - could you please add
>> it?
>
> In general, boolean options should be fastboot/nofastboot.  We have
> plenty of inconsistency in that area, but we really don't need to add
> more.

Actually, the fastboot boot option is already used in RedHat's
rc.sysinit (to skip fsck). Can't we have async_init/sync_init boot
options to control this feature?

BTW, is there already some patch available for this option?

-- 
Olivier Blin (blino) - Mandriva

      reply	other threads:[~2008-10-24 18:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-10  0:32 [git pull] fastboot tree for v2.6.28 Ingo Molnar
2008-10-10 20:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-10 22:49   ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-11  6:47     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-11  7:48       ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-11  8:28         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-11 14:11           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-24 18:26             ` Olivier Blin [this message]

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