Blowing away devfs-created /dev/root

From: Richard Gooch (rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca)
Date: Sun Mar 10 2002 - 19:42:17 EST


  Hi, Al. Looking 2.4.19-pre2 I came across this in init/do_mounts.c:
        sys_chdir("/dev");
        sys_unlink("root");
        sys_mknod("root", S_IFBLK|0600, kdev_t_to_nr(ROOT_DEV));

(line 354 onwards). This will have the effect of blowing away the
/dev/root symlink that is carefully created a few lines above. Is
there a reason you did this, rather than something like:
        sys_chdir("/dev");
        if (do_devfs)
                sys_mount("devfs", ".", "devfs", 0, NULL);
        else {
                sys_unlink("root");
                sys_mknod("root", S_IFBLK|0600, kdev_t_to_nr(ROOT_DEV));
        }

                                Regards,

                                        Richard....
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