Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 09:43:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 09:43:18 -0400 Received: from dell-paw-3.cambridge.redhat.com ([195.224.55.237]:19183 "EHLO passion.cambridge.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 09:43:17 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 13/07/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 From: David Woodhouse X-Accept-Language: en_GB In-Reply-To: <200208151939.OAA02778@ccure.karaya.com> References: <200208151939.OAA02778@ccure.karaya.com> To: Jeff Dike Cc: Linus Torvalds , viro@math.psu.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Eliminate root_dev_names - part 2 of 2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 14:46:26 +0100 Message-ID: <25346.1029505586@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 972 Lines: 28 jdike@karaya.com said: > nfs - not a block device, but registering a dummy gendisk probably > won't hurt That will be done in userspace anyway -- no need to worry about that in the long term, I suspect. I'd like to fix JFFS2 mounting too -- currently we _pretend_ to mount on a block device, because that was just easiest. Then we check the major number == MTD_BLOCK_MAJOR and use the minor as an index to find the actual MTD device, and don't use the mtdblock driver at all. In 2.5, we also allow mounting by MTD device number or name, but not as a root filesystem because the actual text of the 'root=' argument is not passed to the file system in that case. T'would be nice if that could be fixed. -- dwmw2 - 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/