Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 14:41:17 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>,
        Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>,
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        Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@gmail.com>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah.kh@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] init: Disable defaults if init= fails
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On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 14:34:14 -0700 Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Andrew Morton
> <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 14:01:55 -0700 Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> wrote:
> >
> >> > IOW, the no-fallback behavior is easy to implement, easy to
> >> > understand, and has extremely predictable behavior.  The fallback
> >> > behavior is more user friendly if you consider having a chance of
> >> > booting to something useful if you typo your init= option (but also a
> >> > chance of booting to something actively undesirable).
> >>
> >> Here's an alternative proposal: how about we change the default
> >> *without* a Kconfig option, see if anyone screams, and if they do, we
> >> add that code back in under a Kconfig option as in your current patch?
> >>
> >> Would that make your Kconfig senses stop tingling, Andrew? :)
> >
> > Mumble.  I suppose we can run with it as-is: at least the config option
> > is there to allow people to repair any damage easily.
> >
> > However we don't have any way of remembering to remove the config
> > option later coz someone removed feature-removal-schedule.txt, which
> > was a useful feature.
> 
> Does -mm have a next+1 section?  If so, you could queue it up now :)

Yes, I can do that.  I add little notes-to-self in the series file to
remember such things.
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