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Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 06:45:13 -0600
To: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch-2.4.0-test13-pre3] rootfs boot param. support
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From: Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org>
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[Tigran Aivazian]
> +/* this can be set at boot time, e.g. rootfs=ext2 
> + * if set to invalid value or if read_super() fails on the specified
> + * filesystem type then mount_root() will go through all registered filesystems.
> + */
> +static char rootfs[128] __initdata = "ext2";

Better that we not hard-code anything here.  If we want ext2 to be
tried first, we should link it first, which we already do.

Peter

[hand-edited patch, may not be right!]

--- linux/fs/super.c	Tue Dec 12 09:25:22 2000
+++ rootfs/fs/super.c	Mon Dec 18 10:03:31 2000
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
  * if set to invalid value or if read_super() fails on the specified
  * filesystem type then mount_root() will go through all registered filesystems.
  */
-static char rootfs[128] __initdata = "ext2";
+static char rootfs[32] __initdata = "";
 
 int nr_super_blocks;
 int max_super_blocks = NR_SUPER;
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