Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 11:44:48 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
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
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* Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 12:01:38AM -0500, Pawel Plociennik wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> That patch is mangled and you can do this with an initrd...

we can/could do many other boot options via an initrd too. But given an 
existing initrd (which might have come from the distro, etc.) i prefer 
adding boot options instead of modifying the initrd.

	Ingo
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