On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 10:59:50PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Al Viro <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Read init/do_mounts.c::name_to_dev_t().
> >
>
> I tried to do that a while ago, when I was trying to use it for
> name_to_dev_t()ing in swsusp somewhere.
>
>
> >From my notes at the time:
>
> a) It barfs if /sys is already mounted.
It's called from late boot code.
> b) Fix that, mkdir and mount barf because it needs set_fs(KERNEL_DS)
It's called from late boot code, running as kernel thread.
> c) Fix that, it barfs because name_to_dev_t is just broken. It is
> accessing the wrong pathnames in /sys.
Details, please.
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