On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Alan Cox writes:
> > To Do
> > -----
> > Devfs races, Sockfs (removing NULL ->i_sb stuf) (Al Viro)
>
> Actually, I've been working on fixing the devfs races. My latest patch
> improves things a lot.
>
> > To Do But Non Showstopper
> > -------------------------
> > Devfs compiled in but not mounted causes crap for ->mnt_devname of
> > root (Al Viro)
>
> Details please?
compile devfs in, but don't mount it. Now cat /proc/mounts - mnt_devname
for root is calculated by devfs code anyway and
a) doesn't look like an old special case (/dev/root*)
b) doesn't correspond to any device name, since devfs is not
mounted.
Confuses the heck of some rc scripts...
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