[PATCH] - allow specification of alternate inittab files

[B Thomas]

Yeah... that was stupid.  Let's try again with a much smaller, much improved
version. Thanks for pointing out the obvious silliness in the original
patch.

-b


On 10/31/06, B Thomas <bjthomas3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey, you're probably correct.  It was a long, twisty path before I got to
> the final patch including many detours and changes of direction.  Let me
> rework it with the environment variables and resubmit.
>
> Thanks,
> -b
>
>
> On 10/31/06, Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tuesday 31 October 2006 23:22, B Thomas wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > There are circumstances in which it would be great to allow the
> > selection of
> > > different inittab file at boot time. This patch adds the ability to
> > select
> > > the inittab file via a command line option (bb_inittab).
> > >
> > > One of the things that I don't like about this patch is the need to
> > mount
> > > /proc on systems in which it isn't mounted.  The mount is cleaned up
> > and
> > > handled carefully; I just don't like having to do it.  Having said
> > that,
> > > this patch has proven to be quite useful.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Ben Thomas (ben at virtualiron.com )
> >
> > I thought that all unrecognized kernel params are passed in the
> > environment
> > to init: kernel tree, init/main.c:
> >
> > /*
> > * Unknown boot options get handed to init, unless they look like
> > * failed parameters
> > */
> > static int __init unknown_bootoption(char *param, char *val)
> > {
> > ....
> >         if (val) {
> >                 /* Environment option */
> >                 unsigned int i;
> >                 for (i > >                         if (i = MAX_INIT_ENVS) {
> >                                 panic_later > > `%s'";
> >                                 panic_param > >                         }
> >                         if (!strncmp(param, envp_init[i], val - param))
> >                                 break;
> >                 }
> > ....
> >
> > So you do not need to parse /proc/commandline
> > --
> > vda
> >
>
>
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