On Friday 19 March 2010 11:45:20 Phillip Susi wrote: > On 3/19/2010 10:40 AM, Kay Sievers wrote: > >>> Regardless of all that, the default in-kernel partition table > >>> handling, and the partition table parser code will not be replaced by > >>> userspace. But it should be possible to delegate all that to > >>> userspace, on systems which can handle that. This is not reliable > >>> possible today. > >> > >> Why not? > > > > Because the kernel might scan again for devices with removable media, > > or some tool may request a kernel partition scan. We need a global > > default for new devices, and a per-device setting to control the > > partition scanning behavior. > > I mean why not entirely replace the kernel partition handling with > userspace? Stop building the partition recognition code in the kernel > at all. always requiring a bundled initramfs with random userspace utilities to simply boot a kernel and mount a rootfs is unacceptable -mike
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