On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Drew DeVault <s...@cmpwn.com> wrote: > On 2015-09-17 1:40 PM, Ortwin Glück wrote: >> You can do that completely in user space from an initramfs. > > Yep, I'm aware of that. I think it would still be useful for the kernel > to support it. Bonus - if the kernel supports it, there's a standard way > of doing it that would propegate down to the various initramfs designs > of the distros without having me write patches against all of them. > Right?
I really don't see why we need this feature in-kernel as it can be done perfectly fine in userspace. Every non-trivial system needs an initramfs anyway these days. -- Thanks, //richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
