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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 14:34:14 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] init: Disable defaults if init= fails
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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