From: Marco <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Embedded <linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Daniel Walker <dwalker@soe.ucsc.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/14] Pramfs: Mounting as root filesystem
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:05:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A351FB0.3060008@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1244970445.3468.2732.camel@macbook.infradead.org>
David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 10:21 +0200, Marco wrote:
>> Mmm...MEM_MAJOR and RAMDISK_MAJOR have the same value and pramfs works
>> in memory. We could simply use /dev/null (there was an error in the
>> submitted kconfig description, my intention was to use /dev/mem). In
>> that case I can use UNNAMED_MAJOR. PRAMFS root option is not enabled
>> if it's already enabled the NFS one. What do you think?
>
> Why use a major number at all? See how we handle mtd and ubi devices in
> prepare_namespace() -- can't you do something similar?
>
I can look at it.
Marco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-14 16:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-13 13:21 [PATCH 04/14] Pramfs: Mounting as root filesystem Marco
2009-06-13 23:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-06-14 8:21 ` Marco
2009-06-14 9:07 ` David Woodhouse
2009-06-14 16:05 ` Marco [this message]
2009-06-14 16:29 ` Marco
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