Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751799Ab1FBOZe (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jun 2011 10:25:34 -0400 Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu ([198.82.162.213]:49080 "EHLO lennier.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750899Ab1FBOZc (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jun 2011 10:25:32 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.3-dev To: Will Drewry Cc: Kay Sievers , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe , Andrew Morton , Namhyung Kim , Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: [PATCH] init: add root=PARTUUID=UUID+/-%d support In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Jun 2011 08:48:16 CDT." From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <1306957788-12310-1-git-send-email-wad@chromium.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1307024686_2612P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:24:46 -0400 Message-ID: <3887.1307024686@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mirapoint-Received-SPF: 198.82.161.152 auth3.smtp.vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu 2 pass X-Mirapoint-IP-Reputation: reputation=neutral-1, source=Fixed, refid=n/a, actions=MAILHURDLE SPF TAG X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=zidane.cc.vt.edu X-Junkmail-Signature-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A020204.4DE79D30.017B,ss=1,fgs=0, ip=0.0.0.0, so=2010-07-22 22:03:31, dmn=2009-09-10 00:05:08, mode=single engine X-Junkmail-IWF: false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1505 Lines: 43 --==_Exmh_1307024686_2612P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 08:48:16 CDT, Will Drewry said: > Good call=21 I'll take a pass at integrating that. I can see a couple > different ways of handling the parsing (e.g., when and what does it > affect). Do you think it would make sense to keep it isolated to just > being a PARTUUID subargument or would it make more sense for > PARTNROFF=3D to be evaluated as a generic root=3D attribute? I can see= > benefits to both, but one is considerably more minimal to implement :) > =5BMaybe I'll try both and see how they look.=5D I've seen multi-boot configs that have several disks similarly partitione= d - a /boot on /dev/sdN1 and / on /dev/sdN2. For those configs, being able to say = =22use partition 2 of whatever disk you booted=22 would be one less thing you ha= ve to worry about getting out of sync. --==_Exmh_1307024686_2612P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFN550ucC3lWbTT17ARAj8WAJ0ZqkmEEKCGbdlstYCtsmR8RiRJmQCg2lH9 EQyjeE+RCNOuGAzbFjZSlZk= =ZKYf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1307024686_2612P-- -- 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/