From: William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: w.d.hubbs@gmail.com, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>,
mpagano@gentoo.org, ryao@gentoo.org,
"gregkh@gentoo.org Linus Torvalds"
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] init: fix name of root device in /proc/mounts
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 17:23:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130317222324.GA26295@linux1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a6a99589-ac94-4cfc-a871-095431bfd8ef@email.android.com>
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All,
I haven't heard any more on this patch, so I wanted to ping the thread
again and find out the status.
The original message is linked below[1].
The issue is that /dev/root appears in /proc/mounts if you do not boot
with an initramfs, but /dev/root is not a device node. In the past, udev
created a symbolic link from /dev/root to the appropriate block device,
but it does not do this any longer. Also, devtmpfs does not create this
symbolic link.
This is causing bugs with software that depends on the existence of
/dev/root [2] for example.
Do you need any more information on this patch, or is there some reason
it can't go in?
Thanks much,
William
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/1/31/574
[2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438028
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-17 22:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-31 22:51 [PATCH] init: fix name of root device in /proc/mounts William Hubbs
2013-01-31 23:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-02-01 17:14 ` William Hubbs
2013-02-01 19:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-02-05 2:42 ` Rob Landley
2013-02-05 2:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-02-05 4:19 ` William Hubbs
2013-03-17 22:23 ` William Hubbs [this message]
2013-03-19 22:28 ` William Hubbs
2013-03-19 23:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-20 0:20 ` William Hubbs
2013-03-20 0:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-20 7:03 ` Rob Landley
2013-03-20 15:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-03-20 21:11 ` William Hubbs
2013-03-20 21:46 ` Kay Sievers
2013-03-22 3:00 ` Rob Landley
2013-02-09 21:32 ` William Hubbs
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