Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 05:37:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 05:36:50 -0500 Received: from yellow.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.67]:37598 "EHLO yellow.csi.cam.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 05:36:35 -0500 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020109103716.026a0b20@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 10:38:56 +0000 To: Greg KH From: Anton Altaparmakov Subject: Re: initramfs programs (was [RFC] klibc requirements) Cc: felix-dietlibc@fefe.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20020109043446.GB17655@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20020109042331.GB31644@codeblau.de> <20020108192450.GA14734@kroah.com> <20020109042331.GB31644@codeblau.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org At 04:34 09/01/02, Greg KH wrote: >On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:23:31AM +0100, Felix von Leitner wrote: > > > > How many programs are we talking about here? And what should they do? > >Very good question that we should probably answer first (I'll follow up >to your other points in a separate message). > >Here's what I want to have in my initramfs: > - /sbin/hotplug > - /sbin/modprobe > - modules.dep (needed for modprobe, but is a text file) > >What does everyone else need/want there? It is planned to move partition discovery to userspace which would then instruct the kernel of the positions of various partitions. The program(s) to do this will need to be in pretty much everyones initramfs... Best regards, Anton -- "I've not lost my mind. It's backed up on tape somewhere." - Unknown -- Anton Altaparmakov (replace at with @) Linux NTFS Maintainer / WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ ICQ: 8561279 / WWW: http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/