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["David Brown" <dmlb2000 AT gmail.com>]

> Thanks, but why is this in the linux spell instead of an smgl/smgl-mkinitrd
> or something?

Well, eventually I was thinking on enabling building of the initrd by
default in the linux spell, which means that it would have to be in
the linux spell (since the linux spell isn't really supposed to depend
or anything depend on the linux spell).  At least this is how its been
in the past. I'd have to do more testing to make sure mkinitrd doesn't
cause the spell to fail and you could choose to use the initrd or not.

Also linux-initramfs has some scripts that you could put into your
kernel config to use the in-kernel methods of generating initrds and
building into the kernel. The mkinitrd script generates a separate
file and they don't really have any connection.

Depending on how far we want to go we could move all the scripts to a
separate spell, smgl/linux-devel or something but linux would have to
depend on that, I don't really see a problem with this its just not
they way its been done in the past.

- David Brown