Am 17.09.2015 um 20:05 schrieb Drew DeVault: >> Better send a patch to dracut folks. :-) >> Major distros use it and if the feature is nice other initramfs >> implementations will adopt it too. > > dracut is the common one sure, but I'm still not confident that it's the > right place to put this. How would that feature look? Would we have the root= > parameter use a format that's > specific to dracut and no longer a sane kernel parameter? Would we use a > second parameter and discard the root= parameter? I think all of these are > suboptimal solutions. No, the > right way, I think, is to implement this in the kernel and let the init > systems take it from there themselves.
I'd patch dracut to support kernel command lines like "root=/dev/diskX root=/dev/diskY". initramfs is allowed to parse/use the command line. So, you can do what you want. 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/
