Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:20:17 -0500 | From | William Hubbs <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] init: fix name of root device in /proc/mounts |
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On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 04:17:11PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 03/19/2013 03:28 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > The issue is that /dev/root appears in /proc/mounts if you do not > > boot with an initramfs, but /dev/root is not a device node. In the > > past, udev created a symbolic link from /dev/root to the > > appropriate block device, but it does not do this any longer. Also, > > devtmpfs does not create this symbolic link. > > > > This is causing bugs with software that depends on the existence > > of /dev/root [2] for example. > > Seems okay to me, although even better would be to use the udev name > of the device in question.
I'm not following what you mean.
The problem is that "/dev/root" should not be in /proc/mounts, since there is always another entry that points to the root file system.
William
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