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From: Craig Christophel <merlin@transgeek.com>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: Booting a modular kernel through a multiple streams file
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 00:46:01 -0500
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On Monday 17 December 2001 21:31, Alexander Viro wrote:
> There is a word for that and that word is "crap".
>
> Let loader leave an archive to be unpacked into rootfs? ?Sure. ?Let kernel
> exec /init on rootfs and leave the rest to it? ?Absolutely. ?But let's
> stop adding userland stuff into the kernel. 


I agree 100%.  there are several other popular systems that try to do 
everything in-kernel and it adds to the instability overall, besides it gives 
less freedom to customize with standard tools.



Craig.


?Loading modules _can_ be
> done from userland - insmod does it just fine. ?And that's where it should
> be done.
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