From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from majordomo by infradead.org with local (Exim 3.20 #2) id 14aIQc-0000hW-00 for mtd-list@infradead.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2001 14:27:06 +0000 From: Robert Kaiser Reply-To: rob@sysgo.de To: Vipin Malik Subject: RE: Using mtdblock as root device Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 15:14:36 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain References: <30724FF712DFD2119E6200104B2448920119745E@mail1> In-Reply-To: <30724FF712DFD2119E6200104B2448920119745E@mail1> Cc: David Woodhouse , MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01030615265401.02401@rob> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-mtd@infradead.org List-ID: On Die, 06 Mär 2001 you wrote: > >Now my question is: is there any particular reason (other than "nobody > >has told Linus") why this is not already in the standard kernel ? > > > because it's easier to do a > $rdev /dev/mtdblock0 before installing > the kernel with lilo. You don't need to pass any root kernel > line parameters then. I'd say since the kernel does support a "root=..." option it might as well support it for all possible devices rather than just a selection of them. But that's probably a discussion to be held in linux-kernel. Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Kaiser email: rkaiser@sysgo.de SYSGO RTS GmbH Am Pfaffenstein 14 phone: (49) 6136 9948-762 D-55270 Klein-Winternheim / Germany fax: (49) 6136 9948-10 To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe mtd" to majordomo@infradead.org