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Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 13:49:35 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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Subject: [PATCH] init/do_mounts: better syntax description
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Specify hex device number unambiquously.
    
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>

diff --git a/init/do_mounts.c b/init/do_mounts.c
index b6237c3..9f9d5e5 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts.c
@@ -182,7 +182,8 @@ done:
 /*
  *	Convert a name into device number.  We accept the following variants:
  *
- *	1) device number in hexadecimal	represents itself
+ *	1) <hex_major><hex_minor> device number in hexadecimal represents itself
+ *         no leading 0x, for example b302.
  *	2) /dev/nfs represents Root_NFS (0xff)
  *	3) /dev/<disk_name> represents the device number of disk
  *	4) /dev/<disk_name><decimal> represents the device number

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