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
prev parent 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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