Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 06:22:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 06:22:43 -0500 Received: from frege-d-math-north-g-west.math.ethz.ch ([129.132.145.3]:38820 "EHLO frege.math.ethz.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 06:22:30 -0500 Message-ID: <3C3D7966.3080605@debian.org> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 12:22:14 +0100 From: Giacomo Catenazzi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011226 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Kirkwood CC: "Eric S. Raymond" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: initramfs programs (was [RFC] klibc requirements) In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Matthew Kirkwood wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > >>The autoconfigurator is *not* mean to be run at boot time, or as root. >> > > Under normal circumstances. > ???? Could you tell me about an 'anormal' circumstance that need autoconfigurator at boot time ? > >>It is intended to be run by ordinary users, after system boot time. >>This is so they can configure and experimentally build kernels without >>incurring the "oops..." risks of going root. >> > > Then ship it in a separate package with initscripts. Either > CML2 is well enough designed that the autoconfigurator will > not need to change as the kernel does, or all your > overengineering was for nought. No problem. Autoconfigurator can live without important files. I.e. no /proc/bus/{pci,usb}, autoconfigurator will ignore such detections. (it would not say: no PCI cards, but unfortunatelly it will find only few PCI cards (via /proc/{devices,misc}, if you have luke)). BTW: IMHO I can complete the detection, also with ISA cards, before Eric will start including dmi. How to handle a driver db with dmi strings and kernel configurations? It seems to me to complex to try it. We need every possible machine to extract data. giacomo - 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/