[Yaird-devel] Re: initramfs generator selection

Frans Pop aragorn at tiscali.nl
Thu Dec 29 16:47:41 UTC 2005


On Thursday 29 December 2005 17:27, Sven Luther wrote:
> What if we defaulted to yaird, we know that yaird, by design, will fail
> at install time and not at boot time, and give an error message, which
> we can grab and append to the log messages or whatever.

It does not in all cases, like for modules that do not have sysfs support. 
As it cannot detect these modules are needed, it does not know that it 
should fail...

> you want that i give argument to explain my feeling, it is just that an
> intuitive feeling :)

I'm afraid that fails to convince me, especially as I _have_ given some 
real arguments why I prefer initramfs-tools ATM.

> Yeah, but on x86 you default to initramfs-tools, and this one will see
> the majority of the installations, but i didn't say "no way, don't do
> this", i just offered you my feeling with regard to the non-maturity of
> initramfs-tools.

I have absolutely no problem with your mails in this discussion (except 
for the fact that you are still CCing me that is, but hey, when you were 
bouncing me I installed a filter so I don't actually get to see those).

Cheers,
FJP
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