Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757881AbYJXS5X (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:57:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753816AbYJXS5K (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:57:10 -0400 Received: from mx1.moondrake.net ([212.85.150.166]:43649 "EHLO mx1.mandriva.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752565AbYJXS5I (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:57:08 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1838 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:57:08 EDT X-Spam-Virus: No To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , Arjan van de Ven , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Pascal Terjan Subject: Re: [git pull] fastboot tree for v2.6.28 References: <20081010003241.GA23940@elte.hu> <20081010154929.6ec201fe@infradead.org> <20081011064712.GA25451@elte.hu> <20081011004840.5ad62ce0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20081011082845.GA28715@elte.hu> <48F0B40A.8080007@zytor.com> From: Olivier Blin Organization: Mandriva Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:26:26 +0200 In-Reply-To: <48F0B40A.8080007@zytor.com> (H. Peter Anvin's message of "\(unknown date\)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 935 Lines: 26 "H. Peter Anvin" writes: > Ingo Molnar wrote: >> >> a config option is definitely useful for users and distros. Having >> the boot option is a good idea. Arjan, i thought we had a >> fastboot=0/1 boot option but i cannot find it - could you please add >> it? > > In general, boolean options should be fastboot/nofastboot. We have > plenty of inconsistency in that area, but we really don't need to add > more. Actually, the fastboot boot option is already used in RedHat's rc.sysinit (to skip fsck). Can't we have async_init/sync_init boot options to control this feature? BTW, is there already some patch available for this option? -- Olivier Blin (blino) - Mandriva -- 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/