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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /dev
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    On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 12:20 -0400, David Dillow wrote:

    > On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 17:46 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
    > > Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:
    > > >
    > > > It makes the userspace boot process much simpler and easier to maintain,
    > > > as well as providing a way to handle rescue disks and images trivially,
    > > > and it makes the kernel _less_ dependant on the early userspace bootup
    > > > scripts.
    > >
    > > As a initrd less kernel user I can really only agree: getting rid
    > > of the udev-in-initrd requirement would be a big step forward
    > > in usability. Typically I always have to pre populate
    > > a on disk /dev manually first to get my kernels to boot.
    >
    > If you use mount by label or UUID, you still need udev (or other tools)
    > in the initrd to find the right disk, correct? And for distros that want
    > to support that, does this really reduce the amount of code in the
    > initrd?
    >
    Distros would be then free to experiment with just running "blkid" in
    the initramfs to find the root filesystem, rather than the udev daemon
    (which runs blkid itself)

    Scott
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    Scott James Remnant
    scott@ubuntu.com
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