From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 15 May 2001 01:58:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 15 May 2001 01:58:34 -0400 Received: from [195.180.174.169] ([195.180.174.169]:2176 "EHLO idun.neukum.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 15 May 2001 01:58:26 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Oliver Neukum To: "H. Peter Anvin" , Alexander Viro Subject: Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 07:56:35 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: Alan Cox , Linus Torvalds , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <3B006229.EA65A868@transmeta.com> In-Reply-To: <3B006229.EA65A868@transmeta.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01051507563500.01598@idun> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday, 15. May 2001 00:54, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Alexander Viro wrote: > > On Mon, 14 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > Except that Linus wont hand out major numbers, which means I can't > > > > > even boot simply off such a device. I bet the vendors in question > > > > > dont think the sun shines out of linus backside any more. > > > > > > > > Not really. Special-casing for mounting root is trivially solvable. > > > > BTDT, and you've reviewed the patch. > > > > > > And lilo ? > > > > LILO uses BIOS, for fsck sake. It couldn't care less for device numbers > > on the kernel side. Ask Andries how much do they have in common with > > BIOS drive numbers. > > That's not the issue. LILO takes whatever you pass to root= and converts > it to a device number at /sbin/lilo time. An idiotic practice on the > part of LILO, in my opinion, that ought to have been fixed a long time > ago. And happily passes a "root=" argument through "append=" for the kernel to evaluate. Regards Oliver