Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270345AbTGWPdi (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:33:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270375AbTGWPdi (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:33:38 -0400 Received: from 206-158-102-129.prx.blacksburg.ntc-com.net ([206.158.102.129]:7133 "EHLO wombat.ghz.cc") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270345AbTGWPdg (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:33:36 -0400 Message-ID: <31544.216.12.38.216.1058975315.squirrel@www.ghz.cc> In-Reply-To: <20030723170657.2ba9e7db.florian.huber@mnet-online.de> References: <200307230156.40762.tcfelker@mtco.com><1058962821.574.0.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> <20030723170657.2ba9e7db.florian.huber@mnet-online.de> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:48:35 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: root= needs hex in 2.6.0-test1-mm2 From: "Charles Lepple" To: "Florian Huber" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 895 Lines: 29 Florian Huber said: > On 23 Jul 2003 14:20:21 +0200 > Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > >> I would say it's a bug :-) > > "It's not a bug, it's an undocumented feature" ;) > > On the one hand it sounds reasonable tom me that I cannot use the > device "path", because devfs sets it, but why has it changed? It > seemed to work well with older kernel versions. And what do the hex > numbers stand for? First two are the device major, second two are the minor. $ ls -l /dev/hdb1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 65 Jan 30 05:24 /dev/hdb1 -> root=0341 -- Charles Lepple http://www.ghz.cc/charles/ - 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/