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Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 13:50:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> 
> Now it seems Al is doing all the work, so I can just sit back and watch.
> But I hope he makes precisely this: a kernel that does not do any
> partition reading of its own.

I disagree, if only because of backwards competibility issues.

On a conceptual level I think you're right. However, it will break too 
many standard installations as is.

If/when we have a reasonable initrd setup that is usable, we could do some 
automatic partitioning of devices that are available at bootup to minimize 
the impact, but I don't think it is realistic otherwise.

		Linus

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