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DateWed, 3 Mar 2004 07:18:25 -0300 (BRT)
FromMarcelo Tosatti <>
SubjectRe: Mysterious string truncation in 2.4.25 kernel

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, James Morris wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Glen Nakamura wrote:
> 
> > Of course, perhaps 0 should passed instead of "" for data_page?
> > 
> > -    err = do_mount ("none", "/dev", "devfs", 0, "");
> > +    err = do_mount ("none", "/dev", "devfs", 0, 0);
> >
> > Comments?
> 
> Yes, the devfs fix above is needed if the data_page patch has been 
> applied.  
> 
> This is the case in 2.6, but not 2.4.25.

My bad :(

Changed last argument of fs/devfs/base.c do_mount() call to NULL, as per 
2.6.

James, wonder if your change can't cause other similar problems in 2.4? 

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