[Buildroot] [PATCH] initramfs: drop comment against multiple formats

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Sat Jan 26 09:56:59 UTC 2019


>>>>> "Vivien" == Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot at gmail.com> writes:

 > This patch removes an old comment against having multiple filesystem
 > formats which doesn't bring any value.

 > It is also wrong per-se: one may want to use Buildroot to prepare a
 > custom distribution containing a kernel+initramfs and a persistent
 > default rootfs to pivot to.

Yes, but in that case the final persistent rootfs would contain
different files than the initramfs, right?

E.G. I handle such a use case by two different defconfigs, one building
the Linux kernel + initramfs and another for the final persistent
rootfs.

> Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot at gmail.com>

> ---
 >  fs/initramfs/Config.in | 5 -----
 >  1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

 > diff --git a/fs/initramfs/Config.in b/fs/initramfs/Config.in
 > index 9d5a3f92e6..42a9d60524 100644
 > --- a/fs/initramfs/Config.in
 > +++ b/fs/initramfs/Config.in
 > @@ -13,10 +13,5 @@ config BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_INITRAMFS
 >  	  is used, regardless of how buildroot's cpio archive is
 >  	  configured.
 
 > -	  Note that enabling initramfs together with another filesystem
 > -	  formats doesn't make sense: you would end up having two
 > -	  identical root filesystems, one embedded inside the kernel
 > -	  image, and one separately.
 > -
 >  comment "initramfs needs a Linux kernel to be built"
 >  	depends on !BR2_LINUX_KERNEL
 > -- 
 > 2.20.1

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-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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