Re: [patch-2.4.0-test13-pre3] rootfs boot param. support

From: Peter Samuelson (peter@cadcamlab.org)
Date: Mon Dec 18 2000 - 07:45:13 EST


[Tigran Aivazian]
> +/* this can be set at boot time, e.g. rootfs=ext2
> + * if set to invalid value or if read_super() fails on the specified
> + * filesystem type then mount_root() will go through all registered filesystems.
> + */
> +static char rootfs[128] __initdata = "ext2";

Better that we not hard-code anything here. If we want ext2 to be
tried first, we should link it first, which we already do.

Peter

[hand-edited patch, may not be right!]

--- linux/fs/super.c Tue Dec 12 09:25:22 2000
+++ rootfs/fs/super.c Mon Dec 18 10:03:31 2000
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
  * if set to invalid value or if read_super() fails on the specified
  * filesystem type then mount_root() will go through all registered filesystems.
  */
-static char rootfs[128] __initdata = "ext2";
+static char rootfs[32] __initdata = "";
 
 int nr_super_blocks;
 int max_super_blocks = NR_SUPER;
-
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