From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>
To: Leon Woestenberg <leon.woestenberg@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] root=/dev/mtdblock@name
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:33:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071019143303.GD26913@lazybastard.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c384c5ea0710190455h195aa8eeub0bc775da3377183@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 19 October 2007 13:55:08 +0200, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
>
> we have a small patch for 2.6.19 that allows us to specify a root
> filesystem on MTD using named partitions, i.e. such as RedBoot fis
> partitions.
>
> root=/dev/mtdblock@name
>
> Is this something that would be accepted upstream? If so, I'll forward
> the patch to the current MTD GIT tree.
What would that gain us that drivers/mtd/mtdsuper.c does not already
offer?
Jörn
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-19 14:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-19 11:55 [RFC] root=/dev/mtdblock@name Leon Woestenberg
2007-10-19 14:18 ` Leon Woestenberg
2007-10-19 14:33 ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2007-10-19 21:52 ` Leon Woestenberg
2008-03-18 13:46 ` Leon Woestenberg
2008-03-18 14:07 ` Leon Woestenberg
2008-03-18 14:08 ` Ladislav Michl
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