Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 21 Feb 2016 22:08:40 +0000 | From | Alasdair G Kergon <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] init: add support to directly boot to a mapped device |
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On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 10:13:49AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote: > This is a resurrection of a patch series from a few years back, first > brought to the dm maintainers in 2010. It creates a way to define dm > devices on the kernel command line for systems that do not use an > initramfs, or otherwise need a dm running before init starts. > > This has been used by Chrome OS for several years, and now by Brillo > (and likely Android soon). > > The last version was v4: > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/104860/ > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/104861/
Inconsistencies in the terminology here can be sorted out during review, and I see that you've taken on board some of my review comments from 2010, but what are your responses to the rest of them?
Alasdair
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