Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:17:42 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] chroot= as a new kernel parameter |
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Ingo Molnar wrote: > * H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: > >> Pawel Plociennik wrote: >>> Hi Andrew and other *real* hackers, >>> >>> I have sent a *last* version of a patch which it has added a new kernel parameter chroot= >>> It were discusioned a *long time* on a lkml so I hope that it will has been applied. >> It has been discussed and *rejected* a large number of times. >> >> This is completely useless bloat. > > why is it useless? Would it be more acceptable were it made dependent on > a .config option? >
It's useless because it's exactly and trivially replaceable with:
init=/path/to/any/sbin/chroot /newroot /sbin/init
The last thing we want is to pile more stuff into the in-kernel initialization code, and no, making it a config option makes it even worse.
-hpa
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