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From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: /dev/root: which approach ? [PATCH]
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 20:52:28 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c2nv6c$j5$2@news.cistron.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 404F77F3.9070106@kolumbus.fi

In article <404F77F3.9070106@kolumbus.fi>,
Mika Penttilä  <mika.penttila@kolumbus.fi> wrote:
>
>>My question to the FS hackers: which one is the preferred approach?
>>
>>dev_root_alias.patch
>>
>>+	/* See if device is the /dev/root alias. */
>>+	if (dev == MKDEV(4, 1)) {
>
>what is this 4,1, a tty???

If it was a character device, yes. But it's a block device, and
major 4 isn't used yet. I just made it up, a major would need to
be allocated by LANANA ofcourse.

Mike.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-10 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-10 16:20 /dev/root: which approach ? [PATCH] Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-03-10 20:01 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-10 20:18   ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-03-10 20:17 ` Mika Penttilä
2004-03-10 20:52   ` Miquel van Smoorenburg [this message]
2004-03-12  8:10     ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-03-10 21:01   ` Chris Wedgwood

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