Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Mar 2010 19:57:16 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] init: Open /dev/console from rootfs |
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On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 11:53:19PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > To avoid potential problems with an empty /dev open /dev/console > from rootfs instead of waiting to mount our root filesystem and > mounting it there. This effectively guarantees that there will > be a device node, and it won't be on a filesystem that we will > ever unmount, so there are no issues with leaving /dev/console > open and pinning the filesystem. > > This is actually more effective than automatically mounting > devtmpfs on /dev because it removes removes the occasionally > problematic assumption that /dev/console exists from the boot > code.
Hell, yeah. Applied, with thanks.
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