Re: Suspend 2 merge: 9/51: init/* changes.

Pavel Machek
2004-11-27T04:17:49Z

Hi!

> > And if you really want to make it changeable, pass major:minor from userland; once
> > userland is running getting them is easy.
>
> Yes, but that's also far uglier, and who thinks in terms of major and
> minor numbers anyway? I think of my harddrive as /dev/sda, not 08:xx.
> The parsing accepts majors and minors, of course, but shouldn't we make
> these things easier to do, not harder? (Would we insist on using majors
> and minors for root=?).

Kernel interface is not supposed to be "easy". root= has exception,
that's init code, and you can't easily ls -al /dev at that point. If
you want easy interface, create userland program that looks up
minor/major in /dev/ and uses them.
Pavel
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