Re: [PATCH 5/5] fix rootfstype=tmpfs

[Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>]

On 11/1/23 09:10, Stefan Berger wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2/21/23 16:04, Rob Landley wrote:
>> Wire up rootfstype=tmpfs to force rootfs to be tmpfs even when you 
>> specify root=
>>
>> Initramfs automatically uses tmpfs (if available) when you DON'T 
>> specify a
>> root= fallback root to mount over initramfs, but some people can't NOT do

can't NOT -> cannot

>> that for some reason (old bootloaders), so let rootfstype=tmpfs 
>> override it.
>>
>> My original code tried to do this 10 years ago but got the test wrong,
>> and nobody's corrected it since, so here you go...

I think this sentence can be dropped.

>>
>> Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
> 
> I would like to be able to have this for some work with OpenBMC and 
> ideally it would propagate to one of the recent kernels with a Fixes tag 
> like this?
> 

Can you repost this patch or should I do it?

Regards,
    Stefan

> Fixes: 6e19eded3684 ("initmpfs: use initramfs if rootfstype= or root= 
> specified")
> 
> Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
> Tested-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>


> 
>>
>> See https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2207.3/06939.html
>> ---
>>   init/do_mounts.c | 4 ++--
>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/init/do_mounts.c b/init/do_mounts.c
>> index 811e94daf0a8..01d80fb828fd 100644
>> --- a/init/do_mounts.c
>> +++ b/init/do_mounts.c
>> @@ -665,7 +665,7 @@ struct file_system_type rootfs_fs_type = {
>>   void __init init_rootfs(void)
>>   {
>> -    if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TMPFS) && !saved_root_name[0] &&
>> -        (!root_fs_names || strstr(root_fs_names, "tmpfs")))
>> +    if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TMPFS) && (!root_fs_names ? 
>> !saved_root_name[0] :
>> +        !!strstr(root_fs_names, "tmpfs")))
>>           is_tmpfs = true;
>>   }