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On Wednesday, Dec 31, 2003, at 15:52 US/Central, Tommi Virtanen wrote: > 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 :) "console=" takes driver-supplied names which usually happen to match /dev node names. For example, drivers/serial/8250.c names itself "ttyS", so "console=ttyS0" will end up going to that driver, regardless of the state of /dev. I'm not saying that's good or bad, but what's the alternative? "console=class/tty/ttyS0"? -- Hollis Blanchard IBM Linux Technology Center - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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