[PATCH] Add rdinit parameter to pick early userspace init
authorOlof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:17:19 +0000 (15:17 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Wed, 7 Sep 2005 23:57:28 +0000 (16:57 -0700)
commitffdfc40976dda18d923cd001d44bf0ee55da1af4
tree2503b81230c5b3ad0ff3926e1388267338fe24b8
parent2b579beec255d6589fabe51b60933d723630bcd4
[PATCH] Add rdinit parameter to pick early userspace init

Since early userspace was added, there's no way to override which init to
run from it.  Some people tack on an extra cpio archive with a link from
/init depending on what they want to run, but that's sometimes impractical.

Changing the "init=" to also override the early userspace isn't feasible,
since it is still used to indicate what init to run from disk when early
userspace has completed doing whatever it's doing (i.e.  load filesystem
modules and drivers).

Instead, introduce "rdinit=" and make it override the default "/init" if
specified.

Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
init/main.c