From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: /dev/root: which approach ? [PATCH]
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 20:52:28 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c2nv6c$j5$2@news.cistron.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 404F77F3.9070106@kolumbus.fi
In article <404F77F3.9070106@kolumbus.fi>,
Mika Penttilä <mika.penttila@kolumbus.fi> wrote:
>
>>My question to the FS hackers: which one is the preferred approach?
>>
>>dev_root_alias.patch
>>
>>+ /* See if device is the /dev/root alias. */
>>+ if (dev == MKDEV(4, 1)) {
>
>what is this 4,1, a tty???
If it was a character device, yes. But it's a block device, and
major 4 isn't used yet. I just made it up, a major would need to
be allocated by LANANA ofcourse.
Mike.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-10 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-10 16:20 /dev/root: which approach ? [PATCH] Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-03-10 20:01 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-10 20:18 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-03-10 20:17 ` Mika Penttilä
2004-03-10 20:52 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg [this message]
2004-03-12 8:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-03-10 21:01 ` Chris Wedgwood
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