Helen, On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 7:01 AM Helen Koike <helen.koike@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This series is reviving an old patchwork. > Booting from a mapped device requires an initramfs. This series is > allows for device-mapper targets to be configured at boot time for > use early in the boot process (as the root device or otherwise). What is the reason for this patch series? Setting up non-trivial root filesystems/storage always requires an initramfs, there is nothing wrong about this. > Example, the following could be added in the boot parameters. > dm="lroot,,,rw, 0 4096 linear 98:16 0, 4096 4096 linear 98:32 0" root=/dev/dm-0 Hmmm, the new dm= parameter is anything but easy to get right. -- Thanks, //richard