From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: "Frederick, Fabian" <Fabian.Frederick@prov-liege.be>
Cc: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Trying to improve /proc/filesystems
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 08:52:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030630075242.GM27348@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D9B4591FDBACD411B01E00508BB33C1B0140536F@mesadm.epl.prov-liege.be>
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 09:21:00AM +0200, Frederick, Fabian wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to do
>
> nodev xxx 0
> yyy 2
> (or replace nodev by 0->x)
>
> with the following but Linux complains : VFS : unable to mount
> root....Someone could help ?
Yes. Layout of files in procfs should be treated as a part of ABI.
IOW, you make incompatible change - things break.
Folks, file in /proc is not different from a syscall in that respect -
changing layout has the same effect as changes of layout in syscall
arguments.
IOW, don't do that.
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2003-06-30 7:21 Frederick, Fabian
2003-06-30 7:52 ` viro [this message]
2003-06-30 7:55 Frederick, Fabian
2003-06-30 8:16 ` viro
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