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Subject: Re: [PATCH] devfs v196 available
From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
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le sam 17-11-2001 ? 22:16, Richard Gooch a ?crit :
> Roman Zippel writes:
> > - symlink/slave handling of tapes/disk/cdroms is maybe better done
> >   in userspace.
> 
> No, because you want to be able to mount your root FS using
> "root=/dev/cdroms/cdrom0", for example.

"userspace" should probably be the "extended initrd" stuff we'll have in
2.5.

	Xav


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