Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 15:30:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 15:30:45 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:64773 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 15:30:45 -0400 Message-ID: <3D308080.20306@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 15:33:20 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: MandrakeSoft User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Matt_Domsch@Dell.com, greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Removal of pci_find_* in 2.5 References: <3D2FAF94.7070100@mandrakesoft.com> <1026570939.9958.92.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> <3D304940.7020207@mandrakesoft.com> <1026579995.13885.8.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> <3D307F68.7080703@mandrakesoft.com> 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 Content-Length: 863 Lines: 22 Jeff Garzik wrote: > Everything you are saying here just convinces me more than we should do > this stuff in initramfs. At the summit Linus endorsed using > /sbin/hotplug when storage devices appear... combine that with > initramfs, and you should have all you need to handle whatever complex > scenario you come up with. It sounds straightforward to have some > find-the-root-device code in initramfs that can contain "if > (dell_mainboard)" code all over the place. IOW, strive to make order of kernel device initialization irrelevant -- init the kernel drivers, then figure out the boot device. Jeff - 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/