On Friday 19 March 2010 08:22:35 Peter Breitenlohner wrote: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:59, Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 09:21:04PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > >> could you clarify what you mean by "migrating partition code out of the > >> kernel" ? the kernel can never shed its partition parsing logic ... > > > > Why? You can parse partition table in userspace (initramfs) and use > > BLKPG_ADD_PARTITION ioctl to inform kernel about the disk layout or > > you can use device-mapper to create new devices. > > Do your really want to make initramfs mandatory for everyone? Or how else > should the kernel recognize the root filesystem. this was my point. i have no problem with enabling a bypass method so that userspace *may* handle it all, but *requiring* userspace to handle it all (and thus requiring an embedded initramfs) is wrong. thus the usage of "shed" which means "remove all logic from the kernel". -mike
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