Re: [PATCH] skip initramfs check

[Andrew Morton]

Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The initramfs check at populate_rootfs() can consume significant time
> (several seconds) on slow/embedded platforms, since it has to decompress
> the image.
> 
> Add an option to skip it under CONFIG_EMBEDDED.
> 
> Is there a nicer way to achieve the same result?

I'd have thought that a __setup option would be preferable?  Remove an
ifdef, more flexible, and it's all __init code anyway.
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