[klibc] do_mounts new sysfs support?

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Mon Mar 20 15:50:13 PST 2006


On 3/20/06, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> Aaron Griffin wrote:
> > On 3/20/06, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> >
> >>Additionally, the syntax is decimal, not hexadecimal.  I will fix this.
> >
> > Yeah, it just happened to work on hda (3:0), so I missed that.  Any
> > thoughts on this paragraph from the original email:
> >
> > On a side note, would it be possible to pull the do_mounts device node
> > creation out into an external tool, ala fstype/ipconfig/nfsmount (I
> > named it 'mkrootdev' here), so that the device node can be created
> > before passing control to kinit?  The reason I ask is that I need to
> > call fstype and load the proper fs module before passing control.
>
> Sure, but *I* won't have time to do it for a while.
>
> I'd accept such a patch, though.

Will do.



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