From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
trivial@kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: [PATCH] init/do_mounts: better syntax description
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 13:49:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140826114935.GA16731@amd> (raw)
Specify hex device number unambiquously.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>
diff --git a/init/do_mounts.c b/init/do_mounts.c
index b6237c3..9f9d5e5 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts.c
@@ -182,7 +182,8 @@ done:
/*
* Convert a name into device number. We accept the following variants:
*
- * 1) device number in hexadecimal represents itself
+ * 1) <hex_major><hex_minor> device number in hexadecimal represents itself
+ * no leading 0x, for example b302.
* 2) /dev/nfs represents Root_NFS (0xff)
* 3) /dev/<disk_name> represents the device number of disk
* 4) /dev/<disk_name><decimal> represents the device number
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