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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
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Subject: Re: new dev_t printable convention and lilo
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Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru> wrote:
>
> {pts/2}% cat /proc/cmdline
> BOOT_IMAGE=260-t3smp2 ro root=345 devfs=mount
> 
> I guess it has to use 03:45 now? Does it mean lilo has to be updated to handle 
> new convention?
> 

I think we need to teach the parsing code to handle both styles.

It's a bit of a screwup.