Re: support booting of arbitrary non-blockdevice file systems v2

From: Vivek Goyal
Date: Mon Jun 21 2021 - 10:35:26 EST


On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 08:26:55AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> this series adds support to boot off arbitrary non-blockdevice root file
> systems, based off an earlier patch from Vivek.
>
> Chances since v1:
> - don't try to mount every registered file system if none is specified
> - fix various null pointer dereferences when certain kernel paramters are
> not set
> - general refactoring.

Thanks Christoph. This version looks good to me. I tested both with
virtiofs and 9p and it works for me.

Reviewed-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks
Vivek