[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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