On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 07:16:38PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Followup to: <20020903165133.GA8726@southpole.se>
> By author: jakob@southpole.se (Jakob Sandgren)
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've noticed that the 2.4.19 version of "prepare_namespace"
> > (init/do_mounts.c) not allows you to mount a non floppy as a
> > ramdisk(?). This has changed since 2.4.18 (split of main.c ->
> > {do_mounts,main}.c).
> >
> >
> > however, in 2.4.19 it just tries to load a ramdisk if it's on a
> > floppy. Why? There may still be a ramdisk on an other device, NOT
> > using initrd.
> >
>
> You can't search every device hunting for a ramdisk. rd_load() is
> ancient cruft that should be nuked, and will be pushed into userspace
> as part of the initramfs/early userspace work.
I agree, but why is there such a check for mounting the root file
system during startup. After removing the check from
prepare_namespace(), rd_load_image() will still get called with
"/dev/root" as argument and "/dev/root" should allready be pointing to
ROOT_DEV. The target I'm working on is using a ramdisk for it's root
file system, however, it's not using initrd.
--- do_mounts.c-orig Wed Sep 4 11:01:15 2002
+++ do_mounts.c Wed Sep 4 11:02:11 2002
@@ -828,7 +828,6 @@
*/
void prepare_namespace(void)
{
- int is_floppy = MAJOR(ROOT_DEV) == FLOPPY_MAJOR;
#ifdef CONFIG_ALL_PPC
extern void arch_discover_root(void);
arch_discover_root();
@@ -852,7 +851,7 @@
handle_initrd();
goto out;
}
- } else if (is_floppy && rd_doload && rd_load_disk(0))
+ } else if (rd_doload && rd_load_disk(0))
ROOT_DEV = MKDEV(RAMDISK_MAJOR, 0);
mount_root();
out:
Best Regards,
Jakob Sandgren
South Pole AB
-- Jakob Sandgren South Pole AB Phone: +46 8 51420420 Gelbjutarvägen 5 Fax: +46 8 51420429 SE - 17148 Solna e-mail: jakob@southpole.se www.southpole.se - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sat Sep 07 2002 - 22:00:21 EST