On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 08:11:00PM +0200, Seewer Philippe wrote: > > > Warren Togami wrote: > > On 06/05/2009 11:58 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > >> Seewer Philippe (philippe.seewer@xxxxxx) said: > >>> cat and grep just bloat the initrd, this patch removes dependencies > >>> on them. > >> > >> Are we really at a place where we're that worried about 100k? I'd > >> rather not have to implement all of coreutils in shell where needed. > >> > > > > I'm not too happy about this, additionally because it made the code less > > readable. But he already pushed it to git. > > Ah well... I guess I'll label it an rfc patch next time I post something > like that. > > When I was going through the code this morning I just noticed that cat > was used only 4 times and grep just once. Personally I prefer to keep > the number of pulled in utilities as small as possible. Hence the > replacement. If you don't like the way I did it, please suggest > something else. Just because the scripts don't use it, doesn't mean it doesn't have value in the initramfs. Being dropped to a rescue shell and not being able to cat files for diagnostics is sort of annoying. Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
