Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Nov 2002 12:30:46 -0600 (CST) | From | Milton Miller <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] make 2.5.49 mount root again for devfs users |
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What you did was bypass devfs, and cause create_dev to mknod a file with the device number of your root instead of creating a symlink to the normal devfs node.
Is your booter translating the device name into a number? You can check this by looking at the printed comand line in the dmesg, or by cat /proc/cmdline .
If you see root=0304 then your booter is translating the device number and therefore find_in_devfs is failing (possibly because of the previously metioned patch to read_dir).
I notice that there are lots of hardcoded maxdepth of 64 characters for the devfs path, but yours seems to be 39 and therefore should be ok.
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