[klibc] do_mounts new sysfs support?

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Mar 20 12:01:57 PST 2006


Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 01:04:49PM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> 
>>Looking at do_mounts.c, it does not seem to support the "major:minor"
>>syntax exported in 'newer' sysfs (according to linux-2.6.15.6/init). 
> 
> "newer"?  That predates 2.6.0, and was the first user in the kernel of
> the major:minor stuff in sysfs, probably back in 2.5.20 or so.

Indeed; there doesn't seem to be much point in supporting any other syntax.

	-hpa



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