Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934259Ab3CSW23 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:28:29 -0400 Received: from mail-oa0-f50.google.com ([209.85.219.50]:50313 "EHLO mail-oa0-f50.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933274Ab3CSW22 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:28:28 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:28:22 -0500 From: William Hubbs To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: w.d.hubbs@gmail.com, hpa@zytor.com, rob@landley.net, mpagano@gentoo.org, ryao@gentoo.org, gregkh@gentoo.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] init: fix name of root device in /proc/mounts Message-ID: <20130319222822.GA2338@linux1> References: <1359672699-23540-1-git-send-email-w.d.hubbs@gmail.com> <510AFCA1.5000700@zytor.com> <1360032141.12062.12@driftwood> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1372 Lines: 48 --x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline All, I haven't heard any more on this patch, so I wanted to ping the thread again and find out the status. The original message is linked below[1]. The issue is that /dev/root appears in /proc/mounts if you do not boot with an initramfs, but /dev/root is not a device node. In the past, udev created a symbolic link from /dev/root to the appropriate block device, but it does not do this any longer. Also, devtmpfs does not create this symbolic link. This is causing bugs with software that depends on the existence of /dev/root [2] for example. Do you need any more information on this patch, or is there some reason it can't go in? Thanks much, William [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/1/31/574 [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438028 --x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlFI5oYACgkQblQW9DDEZTiqpQCaA2VastTrGEa/ZXJWYhCpq5Vc KacAniA9CiS+lL9i6AqXTCrDYuMaJa50 =F85/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/