To: Dave Jones <davej@...>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, <david@...>, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...>, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...>, Frans Pop <elendil@...>, <jeff@...>, <arjan@...>, <akpm@...>, <alan@...>, <linux-kernel@...>
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 09:36:19PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
Yeah, it would have been much better if we had included a reference
mkinitrd from the beginning, instead of saying, "Kernel doesn't set
policy", and hoping the distro's would converge on something similar.
The reality though is to the extent that we want to make changes like
request_firmware() we are actually better off setting policy for stuff
which is this low-level.
In order to work now it would need to have a relatively simple way for
distro's to hook in their own enhancements, and someone would have to
do most of the work of migrating at least the major distro's to use
the new reference "official" mkinitrd. It's something we should have
done from the very beginning, and it's a lot harder to fix up that
mistake years later.
- Ted
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