From: Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org>
To: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch-2.4.0-test13-pre3] rootfs boot param. support
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 06:45:13 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001218064513.G3199@cadcamlab.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012111102480.801-100000@penguin.homenet> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012181150060.840-100000@penguin.homenet>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012181150060.840-100000@penguin.homenet>; from tigran@veritas.com on Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 11:56:47AM +0000
[Tigran Aivazian]
> +/* this can be set at boot time, e.g. rootfs=ext2
> + * if set to invalid value or if read_super() fails on the specified
> + * filesystem type then mount_root() will go through all registered filesystems.
> + */
> +static char rootfs[128] __initdata = "ext2";
Better that we not hard-code anything here. If we want ext2 to be
tried first, we should link it first, which we already do.
Peter
[hand-edited patch, may not be right!]
--- linux/fs/super.c Tue Dec 12 09:25:22 2000
+++ rootfs/fs/super.c Mon Dec 18 10:03:31 2000
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
* if set to invalid value or if read_super() fails on the specified
* filesystem type then mount_root() will go through all registered filesystems.
*/
-static char rootfs[128] __initdata = "ext2";
+static char rootfs[32] __initdata = "";
int nr_super_blocks;
int max_super_blocks = NR_SUPER;
-
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012111102480.801-100000@penguin.homenet>
2000-12-18 11:56 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-12-18 12:11 ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2000-12-18 12:45 ` Peter Samuelson [this message]
2000-12-18 13:24 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-12-18 15:12 ` Peter Samuelson
2000-12-18 15:21 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-12-18 14:17 Andries.Brouwer
2000-12-18 15:22 ` Peter Samuelson
2000-12-18 15:36 ` Tigran Aivazian
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