Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 15:18:53 +0400
From: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Subject: No /dev/root with devtmpfs?
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Hello up there.

Recently I've reworked my system not to use udev, but use devtmpfs
instead and discovered there is no /dev/root symlink in devtmpfs case.

My setup uses /dev/root early to know what is the boot device and then
do some operations on it like checksumming, etc...

Now when /dev/root is gone the best workaround I could come up with is
to   grep /proc/partitions for '[hs]d[a-z]1'  but it's ugly and will
break when there are several block devices attached.


Is it somehow possible to add /dev/root to devtmpfs?


Thanks,
Kirill
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