Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:22:09 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] init: fix name of root device in /proc/mounts |
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On 01/31/2013 02:51 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > On a system that does not use an initramfs, /dev/root was always > listed in /proc/mounts. This breaks software which scans /proc/mounts to > determine which file systems are mounted since /dev/root is not a valid > device name. > > This changes that processing so that "/dev/root" is only added to > /proc/mounts if a root device is not specified with the root= option on > the kernel command line. > > Signed-off-by: William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>
Let me also point out that most of the time, the kernel actually has a udev device name for an actual device...
-hpa
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