Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Oct 2002 02:40:05 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Abbott and Costello meet Crunch Time -- Penultimate 2.5 merge candidate list. |
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Dave Cinege wrote:
>On Sunday 27 October 2002 21:17, Rob Landley wrote: > > >>This is the next to last posting of this list. (When abbott and costello >>meet the monster, its time is almost up.) There will be at most one more, >>tomorrow, and it may just be a repost of this cc'd to Linus. (Those >>of you waiting for the last minute, this would be it.) >> >> > >Knock off initramfs off...I'll be posting something that >supercedes it (IMO) within the next 72 hours. > >Aside from providing full untar suppprt, it DRAMATICALLY >cleans up do_mounts.c and moves all the initrd code that was >there to initrd.c. Infact I pretty much entirly rewrote initrd, >so it makes sense. (purging prehistoric junk, etc.) > >
lol
untar - cpio is better. initrd - 99% moved out of the kernel do_mounts - moved out of the kernel completely initramfs - should be ready for Linus in the next day or so.
None of that junk -- and a whole lot more -- needs to be in the kernel at all.
Jeff
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