From: William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rob@landley.net,
mpagano@gentoo.org, ryao@gentoo.org, gregkh@gentoo.org,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] init: fix name of root device in /proc/mounts
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:20:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130320002017.GA2810@linux1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5148F1F7.7080706@zytor.com>
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On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 04:17:11PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 03/19/2013 03:28 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> > The issue is that /dev/root appears in /proc/mounts if you do not
> > boot with an initramfs, but /dev/root is not a device node. In the
> > past, udev created a symbolic link from /dev/root to the
> > appropriate block device, but it does not do this any longer. Also,
> > devtmpfs does not create this symbolic link.
> >
> > This is causing bugs with software that depends on the existence
> > of /dev/root [2] for example.
>
> Seems okay to me, although even better would be to use the udev name
> of the device in question.
I'm not following what you mean.
The problem is that "/dev/root" should not be in /proc/mounts,
since there is always another entry that points to the root
file system.
William
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-20 0:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-31 22:51 [PATCH] init: fix name of root device in /proc/mounts William Hubbs
2013-01-31 23:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-02-01 17:14 ` William Hubbs
2013-02-01 19:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-02-05 2:42 ` Rob Landley
2013-02-05 2:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-02-05 4:19 ` William Hubbs
2013-03-17 22:23 ` William Hubbs
2013-03-19 22:28 ` William Hubbs
2013-03-19 23:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-20 0:20 ` William Hubbs [this message]
2013-03-20 0:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-20 7:03 ` Rob Landley
2013-03-20 15:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-20 21:11 ` William Hubbs
2013-03-20 21:46 ` Kay Sievers
2013-03-22 3:00 ` Rob Landley
2013-02-09 21:32 ` William Hubbs
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2013-02-05 20:07 William Hubbs
2013-02-05 20:10 ` William Hubbs
2013-02-05 21:45 ` Stephen Rothwell
2013-02-05 23:36 ` William Hubbs
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