Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Feb 2013 11:14:53 -0600 | From | William Hubbs <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] init: fix name of root device in /proc/mounts |
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On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 03:22:09PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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...
I'm not sure what you mean. If you mean /dev/root is not an actual device and should not be listed in /proc/mounts, that is correct and that is why I am proposing this patch.
William
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