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Date:   Thu, 23 Jul 2020 16:27:34 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To:     Lukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach@samsung.com>
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        Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/23] initramfs: simplify clean_rootfs
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On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 04:25:34PM +0200, Lukasz Stelmach wrote:
> >> Can you comment out the call to d_genocide?  It seems like for your
> >> the fact that clean_rootfs didn't actually clean up was a feature and
> >> not a bug.
> >> 
> >> I guess the old, pre-2008 code also wouldn't have worked for you in
> >> that case.
> >
> > Did you get a chance to try this?
> 
> Indeed, commenting out d_genocide() helps.

So given that people have relied on at least the basic device nodes
like /dev/console to not go away since 2008, I wonder if we should just
remove clean_rootfs entirely

Linus, Al?