From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: zzz@cd-club.ru (Denis Zaitsev)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] init/main.c/root_dev_names - another one #ifdef
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 00:15:10 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E15yj2E-0001o7-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011031045353.A22507@zzz.zzz.zzz> from "Denis Zaitsev" at Oct 31, 2001 04:53:54 AM
> The idea is to include the SCSI disk's names into the list only if we
> compile the kernel with the corresponding support. It's not very
> serious patch, but to put the things in order... Linus, please, apply
> it.
It took that out deliberately a few months back. The ifdefs in fact
break stuff
Firstly the array is __init so is discarded on boot
Secondly if you have an initrd containing the scsi driver layers then you
can specify root=sda quite legitimately.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-31 0:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-30 23:53 [PATCH] init/main.c/root_dev_names - another one #ifdef Denis Zaitsev
2001-10-31 0:15 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-10-31 0:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-31 0:28 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-31 1:28 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-31 17:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-10-31 18:20 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-31 18:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-10-31 19:08 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-01 2:05 ` Denis Zaitsev
2001-10-31 1:36 ` Denis Zaitsev
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