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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