>>> Al Viro <[email protected]> 09.11.05 15:29:26 >>>
>On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 03:09:54PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> While for limited amounts of configuration information the kernel
>> command line may be suitable, it isn't when it comes to significant
>> amounts of configurable entities that need to be set before the
full
>> kernel infrastructure is available. This patch adds functionality
to
>> pass one or more configuration files through the initrd, but
without
>> requiring knowledge of the actual structure (including compression)
of
>> it; the file(s) is/are attached to the end of the already built
>> initrd (which obviously depends on external scripts not provided
>> here).
>
>What the hell for? We _already_ have a way to get any set of files
in
>a filesystem as soon as we have VFS caches set up (and until then you
>can't open anything anyway).
That's the whole point - a debugger wants this *before* VFS is set up
(and thus obviously without going through VFS in the first place). One
may argue that the naming is odd, but that's nothing I really care
about.
>NAK.
Then suggest an alternative solution.
Jan
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