Re: root=/dev/sda1 fails but root=0x0801 works...

From: Al Viro
Date: Wed Feb 15 2006 - 02:57:39 EST


On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 11:32:56PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > Details, please.
>
> I just don't remember, sorry. From inspection it _looks_ OK. But I do
> remember getting -ENOENT, looking at the pathnames and deciding that it was
> miles off.
>
> swsusp has a habit of leaving a trailing \n at the end of resume_file, but
> it was more than that.
>
> And I threw away the patch which exercised this. Oh well.
>
> (Wonders whether software_resume()'s call to name_to_dev_t() can work and
> if so, whether all that stuff as well as name_to_dev_t() can become __init).

Well... FWIC, it should go into kinit and disappear from the kernel proper,
along with all its callers. Now that hpa had created kernel+klibc+kinit
tree, we might finally get there...
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