From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 14 May 2001 18:55:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 14 May 2001 18:55:16 -0400 Received: from neon-gw.transmeta.com ([209.10.217.66]:58889 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 14 May 2001 18:55:03 -0400 Message-ID: <3B006229.EA65A868@transmeta.com> Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 15:54:33 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Transmeta Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5-pre1-zisofs i686) X-Accept-Language: en, sv, no, da, es, fr, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Viro CC: Alan Cox , Linus Torvalds , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -hpa -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt