Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Dec 2003 23:52:34 +0200 | From | Tommi Virtanen <> | Subject | Re: udev and devfs - The final word |
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Rob Love wrote: >>Let me try to rephrase Nathan's question more explicitly. >> >>If user policy decides all naming, how does the kernel parse e.g. >>root=/dev/foo arguments? Or the swap partition to use for swsuspend? > Oh. That has always been a hack, ala name_to_dev_t(). > > We will have to continue doing that hack so long as those users are in > the kernel proper (and not early user-space, for example).
I think devfs names are accepted as root= arguments, so that's a bit of a loss.. with udev, your /dev and your root= are equal only if you follow the standard naming.
For root=, I can see how early userspace can move that to userspace. But what about swsuspend?
Are there any more kernel options taking file names? I think now would be a good time to stop adding more of them :)
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