[BusyBox] [PATCH RESEND] bug in find_real_root_device.c and code clean up

Tito farmatito at tiscali.it
Tue Aug 3 21:18:06 UTC 2004


On Tuesday 03 August 2004 OO:20, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Tue Aug 03, 2004 at 01:50:14PM +0000, Tito wrote:
> > > Why would someone purposefully create a /dev/root device node?
> > > And if they did purposefully create it, why not use it?
> > > Is this a devfs thing?
> > Hi,
> > Maybe it is due to the use of an initrd as there is also: 
> > lr-xr-xr-x  1 root root 33 Aug  3 13:33 /dev/root -> ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1
> > lr-xr-xr-x  1 root root  4 Aug  3 13:33 /dev/root.old -> rd/0
> > Have to look in the initscripts and in devfsd.conf.
> 
> Ok, this does seem to be a devfs thing...
> 
> With this in place, is everything ok?
> http://www.busybox.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/libbb/find_root_device.c?r1=1.12&r2=1.13&diff_format=u

Works fine for me!!!
Ciao, 
Tito
>  -Erik



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