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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/14] Pramfs: Mounting as root filesystem
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:07:25 +0100
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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?

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David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
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