Re: /dev/root: which approach ? [PATCH]

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <404F77F3.9070106@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
Mika Penttilä  <mika.penttila@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>My question to the FS hackers: which one is the preferred approach?
>>
>>dev_root_alias.patch
>>
>>+	/* See if device is the /dev/root alias. */
>>+	if (dev == MKDEV(4, 1)) {
>
>what is this 4,1, a tty???

If it was a character device, yes. But it's a block device, and
major 4 isn't used yet. I just made it up, a major would need to
be allocated by LANANA ofcourse.

Mike.

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