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From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: psusi@cfl.rr.com, jzb@aexorsyst.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: root=/dev/sda1 fails but root=0x0801 works...
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 07:59:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060215075942.GK27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060214233256.2969b4b7.akpm@osdl.org>

On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 11:32:56PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > Details, please.
> 
> I just don't remember, sorry.  From inspection it _looks_ OK.  But I do
> remember getting -ENOENT, looking at the pathnames and deciding that it was
> miles off.
> 
> swsusp has a habit of leaving a trailing \n at the end of resume_file, but
> it was more than that.
> 
> And I threw away the patch which exercised this.  Oh well.
> 
> (Wonders whether software_resume()'s call to name_to_dev_t() can work and
> if so, whether all that stuff as well as name_to_dev_t() can become __init).

Well...  FWIC, it should go into kinit and disappear from the kernel proper,
along with all its callers.  Now that hpa had created kernel+klibc+kinit
tree, we might finally get there...

      reply	other threads:[~2006-02-15  7:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-14  7:16 root=/dev/sda1 fails but root=0x0801 works John Z. Bohach
2006-02-14 15:42 ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-14 16:24   ` Al Viro
2006-02-14 17:20     ` John Z. Bohach
2006-02-14 19:03       ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-15  6:59     ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-15  7:10       ` Al Viro
2006-02-15  7:32         ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-15  7:59           ` Al Viro [this message]

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