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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.6.24] chroot= as a new kernel parameter
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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