Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...>, Willy Tarreau <w@...>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, <alan@...>, <linux-kernel@...>
I think that should work fine from a technical angle, and I don't disagree
per se, but it really is very ugly.
Wouldn't it be much simpler to just require people to have a reasonably
up-to-date mkinitrd. Apparently it's not available _everywhere_, but if we
check for this up-front (even if we can apparently only do so at "make
install" time due to the root requirements), wouldn't that really solve
the issue with much less work?
Linus
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