Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935552AbYCFU6M (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Mar 2008 15:58:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762906AbYCFU5z (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Mar 2008 15:57:55 -0500 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:46485 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759731AbYCFU5y (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Mar 2008 15:57:54 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 21:57:37 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Pawel Plociennik , Pavel Machek , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] chroot= as a new kernel parameter Message-ID: <20080306205736.GA22756@elte.hu> References: <200803060001.38432.paplociennik@gmail.com> <47CF79E4.3030107@zytor.com> <20080306102712.GE13391@elte.hu> <47D00B16.6040004@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47D00B16.6040004@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0088] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 632 Lines: 18 * H. Peter Anvin wrote: > It's useless because it's exactly and trivially replaceable with: > > init=/path/to/any/sbin/chroot /newroot /sbin/init ok, i didnt realize that this was possible. Ah ... i see, init/main.c:init_setup() is special and picks the whole boot parameter string up to the end, right? So init= is the only multi-parameter init-parameter. Ingo -- 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/