On Sat, 02 Jan 2016 18:35:29 +0000
Rainer Weikusat <rainerweikusat@???> wrote:

> Steve Litt <slitt@???> writes:

> > Why does everyone think I was advocating the banishment of
> > initramfs? Go back to my initial post and you'll see I was
> > suggesting a way to give the owner/admin a *choice* to go without
> > initramfs.
>
> You already have that choice, you just need to exercise it: Compile a
> kernel which can mount 'your' root filesystem without the help of
> additional userspace software, be it for loading modules or for
> additional configuration, and use that: No initsomething needed.

:s/choice/easy choice/

Maybe 1 out of 50 Linux users can reliably compile their own kernels.

SteveT

Steve Litt
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