From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel setup()
Date: 12 Mar 2003 08:24:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b4nn04$3gk$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.GHP.4.53.0303120915340.16277@alderaan.science-computing.de
Followup to: <Pine.GHP.4.53.0303120915340.16277@alderaan.science-computing.de>
By author: Oliver Tennert <tennert@science-computing.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> My question is: is pivot_root deprecated by now? I just am quite dazzled
> and want to know how to __cleanly__ handle the mounting of a new root
> device.
>
pivot_root() is the currently preferred method. Depending on where
the initramfs is by the time Linux 2.6 comes out it may be replaced by
then, but for 2.4, pivot_root() is the way to go.
-hpa
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2003-03-12 8:26 Kernel setup() Oliver Tennert
2003-03-12 16:24 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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