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From: Marco <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/14] Pramfs: Mounting as root filesystem
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:05:04 +0200
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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