Re: [RFC PATCH] Move actually mounting the root filesystem into its own series of hooks.

[Seewer Philippe <philippe.seewer-omB+W0Dpw2o@public.gmane.org>]

Warren Togami wrote:
> Thiago Galesi wrote:
>>>> Warren Togami wrote:
>>>> A question: Why not use root=/dev/nfs and the other options 
>>>> according to
>>>> kernel doc, like nfsroot=... and ip=autoconf? For me that is much more
>>>> readable.
>>> It is a matter of taste and historical contingency, I suppose.  The
>>> current nfsroot mounting stuff was added way before initramfs/initrd was
>>> an option, and it was probably easier to not mess up the in-kernel root=
>>> handling code (which expected a device to mount).
>>
>>
>> I think it is important to keep backwards compatibility in this
>> specific case, and handle "root=/dev/nfs" kind of stuff. Really, think
>> about keeping 2, 3 different cmdlines depending if the system is newer
>> or older. It may look like a small hassle, but getting this right
>> sometimes takes some time
> 
> 
> Who's tools handled "root=/dev/nfs"?  /dev/nfs cannot be a valid dev node?

That's an in-kernel implementation, or for user-space a hint that there 
should be a nfsroot cmdline optione.

> 
> Warren Togami
> wtogami-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org
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