Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Jan 1998 11:53:15 +1100 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | devfs patch v5 |
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Hi, all. I've made v5 of my devfs patch available. You can pick it up at: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/kernel-patches.html I'm not posting it to the list because some people are worried about the size of their mailboxes :-)
This patch adds support for mounting directly from entries in the devfs (it doesn't need to be mounted to do this), including the root filesystem. Mounting of swap partitions also works. Hence, now if you set CONFIG_DEVFS_ONLY to 'Y' then you won't be able to access your discs via ordinary device nodes. Naturally, the default is 'N' so that you can still use your old device nodes. If you want to mount from devfs entries, make sure you use: append = "root=/dev/sd_..."
in your lilo.conf. It seems LILO looks for the device number (major&minor) and writes that into the kernel image :-(
Thanks to C. Scott Ananian <cananian@lcs.mit.edu> for adding support for character memory devices (/dev/null, /dev/zero, /dev/full and so on).
No SCSI disc renaming or subdirectory support has been done yet. I'm still letting the dust settle.
Regards,
Richard....
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