Re: [PATCH] devfs v196 available

From: Xavier Bestel (xavier.bestel@free.fr)
Date: Sun Nov 18 2001 - 07:00:27 EST


le sam 17-11-2001 à 22:16, Richard Gooch a écrit :
> Roman Zippel writes:
> > - symlink/slave handling of tapes/disk/cdroms is maybe better done
> > in userspace.
>
> No, because you want to be able to mount your root FS using
> "root=/dev/cdroms/cdrom0", for example.

"userspace" should probably be the "extended initrd" stuff we'll have in
2.5.

        Xav

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