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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Pawel Plociennik <paplociennik@gmail.com>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] chroot= as a new kernel parameter
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:17:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47D00B16.6040004@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080306102712.GE13391@elte.hu>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-06 15:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-06  5:01 Pawel Plociennik
2008-03-06  4:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-06 10:27   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-06 15:17     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-03-06 20:57       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-06 21:05         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-06 21:20       ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-06 21:30         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-06 22:05           ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2008-03-07 10:36           ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2008-03-07 12:28             ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-06 21:42         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-06 21:50           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-06 22:22             ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-07  4:53         ` Greg Schafer
2008-03-07  9:27         ` Måns Rullgård
2008-03-06 16:54     ` Pawel Plociennik
2008-03-06 15:47   ` Pawel Plociennik
2008-03-06 10:34 ` Chris Wedgwood
2008-03-06 10:44   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-06 11:22     ` Chris Wedgwood
2008-03-06 11:37       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-06 11:53         ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-06 19:46           ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-03-06 20:57             ` Willy Tarreau
2008-03-07  8:23         ` Chris Wedgwood
2008-03-07 21:04 devzero
2008-03-07 22:32 ` Christian Kujau
2008-03-08 14:10 Al Boldi
2008-03-08 14:28 ` Christian Kujau
2008-03-08 16:34   ` Al Boldi

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