From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757361AbZEALiT (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 May 2009 07:38:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754194AbZEALiK (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 May 2009 07:38:10 -0400 Received: from isrv.corpit.ru ([81.13.33.159]:49367 "EHLO isrv.corpit.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751006AbZEALiK (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 May 2009 07:38:10 -0400 Message-ID: <49FADF20.9050108@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 15:38:08 +0400 From: Michael Tokarev Organization: Telecom Service, JSC User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090103) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kay Sievers CC: Andrew Morton , Greg KH , linux-kernel , Jan Blunck Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver-core: devtmpfs - driver core maintained /dev tmpfs References: <1241097822.2516.3.camel@poy> <20090430222900.c13b63d5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090501061701.GB19234@kroah.com> <20090430234312.a63fa5cf.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090501065527.GA19773@kroah.com> <20090501000353.b89caa8c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Kay Sievers wrote: [] > It does not really change anything visible for the normal distros, > besides that bootup can be made more efficient by running things in > parallel, and that there will be a working and correct /dev in the > rescue case. Ok, how about switch_root done as the last thing in initramfs? If there's another filesystem (besides rootfs and real /root) mounted, what switch_root (or equivalent) should do? Or should the initramfs script move it (as in mount --move) to /root/dev before invoking switch_root? Thanks! /mjt