Re: Abbott and Costello meet Crunch Time -- Penultimate 2.5 merge

[Jeff Garzik]

Dave Cinege wrote:

>On Sunday 27 October 2002 21:17, Rob Landley wrote:
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>>This is the next to last posting of this list.  (When abbott and costello
>>meet the monster, its time is almost up.)  There will be at most one more,
>>tomorrow, and it may just be a repost of this cc'd to Linus.  (Those
>>of you waiting for the last minute, this would be it.)
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>Knock off initramfs off...I'll be posting something that
>supercedes it (IMO) within the next 72 hours.
>
>Aside from providing full untar suppprt, it DRAMATICALLY
>cleans up do_mounts.c and moves all the initrd code that was
>there to initrd.c. Infact I pretty much entirly rewrote initrd,
>so it makes sense. (purging prehistoric junk, etc.)
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>

lol

untar - cpio is better.
initrd - 99% moved out of the kernel
do_mounts - moved out of the kernel completely
initramfs - should be ready for Linus in the next day or so.

None of that junk -- and a whole lot more -- needs to be in the kernel 
at all.

    Jeff