From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mpagano@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] init: fix name of root device in /proc/mounts
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:22:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <510AFCA1.5000700@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1359672699-23540-1-git-send-email-w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>
On 01/31/2013 02:51 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> On a system that does not use an initramfs, /dev/root was always
> listed in /proc/mounts. This breaks software which scans /proc/mounts to
> determine which file systems are mounted since /dev/root is not a valid
> device name.
>
> This changes that processing so that "/dev/root" is only added to
> /proc/mounts if a root device is not specified with the root= option on
> the kernel command line.
>
> Signed-off-by: William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>
Let me also point out that most of the time, the kernel actually has a
udev device name for an actual device...
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-31 23:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-31 22:51 William Hubbs
2013-01-31 23:22 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-02-01 17:14 ` William Hubbs
2013-02-01 19:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-02-05 2:42 ` Rob Landley
2013-02-05 2:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-02-05 4:19 ` William Hubbs
2013-03-17 22:23 ` William Hubbs
2013-03-19 22:28 ` William Hubbs
2013-03-19 23:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-20 0:20 ` William Hubbs
2013-03-20 0:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-20 7:03 ` Rob Landley
2013-03-20 15:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-20 21:11 ` William Hubbs
2013-03-20 21:46 ` Kay Sievers
2013-03-22 3:00 ` Rob Landley
2013-02-09 21:32 ` William Hubbs
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