Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755532AbZFNJHc (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:07:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751014AbZFNJH3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:07:29 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:43443 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750786AbZFNJH2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:07:28 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/14] Pramfs: Mounting as root filesystem From: David Woodhouse To: Marco Cc: Arnd Bergmann , Linux FS Devel , Linux Embedded , Linux Kernel , Daniel Walker In-Reply-To: <4A34B2FD.20701@gmail.com> References: <4A33A7D7.3040008@gmail.com> <200906140104.43463.arnd@arndb.de> <4A34B2FD.20701@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:07:25 +0100 Message-Id: <1244970445.3468.2732.camel@macbook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.2 (2.26.2-1.fc11) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 919 Lines: 20 On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 10:21 +0200, Marco wrote: > > Mmm...MEM_MAJOR and RAMDISK_MAJOR have the same value and pramfs works > in memory. We could simply use /dev/null (there was an error in the > submitted kconfig description, my intention was to use /dev/mem). In > that case I can use UNNAMED_MAJOR. PRAMFS root option is not enabled > if it's already enabled the NFS one. What do you think? Why use a major number at all? See how we handle mtd and ubi devices in prepare_namespace() -- can't you do something similar? -- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation -- 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/