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On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 3:51 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> [1] It's also one of the reasons persistent device naming came into |
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> udev, to try guarantee the same device will always have the same name |
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This is also one of the reasons why an initramfs is useful. |
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Linus basically decided that it makes far more sense to have userspace |
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manage this stuff than the kernel, and the initramfs is the way this |
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is accomplished during boot. They didn't remove the existing kernel |
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functionality, but they're not going to be investing in it. |
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Rich |
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