possible mountroot regression

Garrett Cooper yanegomi at gmail.com
Wed Oct 19 19:41:43 UTC 2011


On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Oliver Pinter wrote:
>
>> On 10/19/11, Olivier Smedts <olivier at gid0.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> 2011/10/19 Marcel Moolenaar <marcel at xcllnt.net>:
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 18, 2011, at 9:04 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Would you be able to commit a variant of this patch sans the 'x' part?
>>>>
>>>> Yes, soonish. If people like the 'x' change I can do that in a followup
>>>> commit as well. I just need to know if people like it or not...
>>>
>>> Yes, it's useful. But why not "q" for "quit" ? Just a bikeshed color
>>> idea...
>>>
>> eXit :)
>
> In some languages...
>
> More important to me is the "the Abort manual input" which tells what it
> does but not why the user would want to do that.
>
> Abort manual input... and then what?  Hang?  Retry?  Panic?  Reboot? Resume
> attempting to mount the root device that was expected?

Or just go back to status quo for previous releases and we can worry
about usability later?
-Garrett


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