From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Karl Beldan <karl.beldan@gmail.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] do_mounts: Allow mtd names for non-flash block filesystems
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:24:23 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1286825063.1742.13.camel@brekeke> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1286398974-12114-1-git-send-email-karl.beldan@gmail.com>
On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 23:02 +0200, Karl Beldan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been using this tweak for some time now, and I am getting tired of
> having to resort to it so often.
> It allows to pass such cmdline root as:
> "root=mtdb:ubivolx rootfstype=squashfs"
> I am pretty sure many people use squashfs/cramfs filesystems on top of nand,
> for example, and I thought that this might initiate discussion.
>
> --
> Karl
>
> Signed-off-by: Karl Beldan <karl.beldan@gmail.com>
> ---
> init/do_mounts.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
> 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Dunno...
First of all, if you have to do this, let it be mtdblock, not mtdb - no
need to breed aliases.
But how about teaching squashfs to understand mtdX and mtd:name syntax
instead?
--
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-11 19:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-06 21:02 [RFC] do_mounts: Allow mtd names for non-flash block filesystems Karl Beldan
2010-10-06 21:22 ` Karl Beldan
2010-10-11 19:24 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2010-10-12 13:16 ` Karl Beldan
2010-10-12 14:27 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-10-12 15:11 ` Karl Beldan
2010-10-12 15:27 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-10-12 15:51 ` Karl Beldan
2010-10-13 10:35 ` Peter Korsgaard
2010-10-13 11:16 ` Karl Beldan
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