Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /dev | From | Scott James Remnant <> | Date | Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:04:09 +0100 |
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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)
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