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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
	Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>,
	Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@gmail.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	Shuah Khan <shuah.kh@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] init: Disable defaults if init= fails
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 14:34:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALCETrX9icyrFyhdH4d=ijds5DMr4N1-wRmz_nBOipUwaee4ag@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141020142836.fcea4aa8dd7bb5cfe9ede423@linux-foundation.org>

On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 14:01:55 -0700 Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> wrote:
>
>> > IOW, the no-fallback behavior is easy to implement, easy to
>> > understand, and has extremely predictable behavior.  The fallback
>> > behavior is more user friendly if you consider having a chance of
>> > booting to something useful if you typo your init= option (but also a
>> > chance of booting to something actively undesirable).
>>
>> Here's an alternative proposal: how about we change the default
>> *without* a Kconfig option, see if anyone screams, and if they do, we
>> add that code back in under a Kconfig option as in your current patch?
>>
>> Would that make your Kconfig senses stop tingling, Andrew? :)
>
> Mumble.  I suppose we can run with it as-is: at least the config option
> is there to allow people to repair any damage easily.
>
> However we don't have any way of remembering to remove the config
> option later coz someone removed feature-removal-schedule.txt, which
> was a useful feature.

Does -mm have a next+1 section?  If so, you could queue it up now :)

--Andy

  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-20 21:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-29  2:40 [PATCH v5] init: Disable defaults if init= fails Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-30 12:12 ` Chuck Ebbert
2014-10-01  0:41 ` Frank Rowand
2014-10-01  0:58   ` Rob Landley
2014-10-01  1:52     ` Frank Rowand
2014-10-01  3:16       ` Rob Landley
2014-10-01  4:53         ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-01 18:05           ` josh
2014-10-01 18:13             ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-01 22:42               ` josh
2014-10-14 21:00               ` Andrew Morton
2014-10-14 21:21                 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-15  5:46                   ` Frank Rowand
2014-10-15  5:56                     ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-15  6:37                       ` Frank Rowand
2014-10-15 15:18                 ` Rob Landley
2014-10-20 20:14                 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-20 21:01                   ` Josh Triplett
2014-10-20 21:28                     ` Andrew Morton
2014-10-20 21:34                       ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2014-10-20 21:41                         ` Andrew Morton
2014-10-20 21:42                           ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-20 21:44                             ` Andrew Morton
2014-10-20 22:04                               ` [PATCH] init: Remove CONFIG_INIT_FALLBACK Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-20 22:06                                 ` josh
2014-10-21  3:45                                 ` Rob Landley
2014-10-21  4:02                                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-21  4:15                                     ` Rob Landley
2014-10-21  9:53                                 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-10-21 10:05                                   ` Josh Triplett
2014-10-14  0:47 ` [PATCH v5] init: Disable defaults if init= fails Rusty Russell

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