Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 09 Nov 2005 15:37:02 +0100 | From | "Jan Beulich" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 15/39] NLKD - early pseudo-fs |
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>>> Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> 09.11.05 15:29:26 >>> >On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 03:09:54PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: >> While for limited amounts of configuration information the kernel >> command line may be suitable, it isn't when it comes to significant >> amounts of configurable entities that need to be set before the full >> kernel infrastructure is available. This patch adds functionality to >> pass one or more configuration files through the initrd, but without >> requiring knowledge of the actual structure (including compression) of >> it; the file(s) is/are attached to the end of the already built >> initrd (which obviously depends on external scripts not provided >> here). > >What the hell for? We _already_ have a way to get any set of files in >a filesystem as soon as we have VFS caches set up (and until then you >can't open anything anyway).
That's the whole point - a debugger wants this *before* VFS is set up (and thus obviously without going through VFS in the first place). One may argue that the naming is odd, but that's nothing I really care about.
>NAK.
Then suggest an alternative solution.
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