Am 29.04.2015 um 16:01 schrieb Harald Hoyer: > On 29.04.2015 15:46, Richard Weinberger wrote: >> Am 29.04.2015 um 15:38 schrieb Harald Hoyer: >>> On 29.04.2015 15:33, Richard Weinberger wrote: >>>> It depends how you define "beginning". To me an initramfs is a *very* >>>> minimal >>>> tool to prepare the rootfs and nothing more (no udev, no systemd, no >>>> "mini distro"). >>>> If the initramfs fails to do its job it can print to the console like >>>> the kernel does if it fails >>>> at a very early stage. >>>> >>> >>> Your solution might work for your small personal needs, but not for our >>> customers. >> >> Correct, I don't know your customers, all I know are my customers. :-) >> >> What feature do your customers need? >> I mean, I fully agree with you that an initramfs must not fail silently >> but how does dbus help there? If it fails to mount the rootfs there is not >> much it can do. >> >> Thanks, >> //richard >> > > We don't handcraft the initramfs script for every our customers, therefore we > have to generically support hotplug, persistent device names, persistent > interface names, network connectivity in the initramfs, user input handling > for > passwords, fonts, keyboard layouts, fips, fsck, repair tools for file systems, > raid assembly, LVM assembly, multipath, crypto devices, live images, iSCSI, > FCoE, all kinds of filesystems with their quirks, IBM z-series support, resume > from hibernation, […]
This is correct. But which of these tools/features depend on dbus? Thanks, //richard P.s: Please don't drop the CC list. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/