On Wed, Sep 26 2018 at 3:16am -0400, Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Exactly. If phones or whatever would benefit from this patchset then say as much. I will not accept this patchset at this time. > > 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. No, it isn't.. exposes way too much potential for users hanging themselves.
