Re: Mounting root through devfs

To: Thomas Quinot <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Mounting root through devfs
From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 08:55:38 +0200
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In message <20040501223031.GA10624@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Thomas Quinot writes:

>Review, testing and comments would be very much appreciated.
>
>If I understand the comment just above the definition of g_dev_clone,
>integration of this patch would allow removal of a questionable hack.

yes, this looks a fair bit but less but not quite not questionable
than the current root-mounting hack :-)

I'll try to look over this later in the week when I have a moment.

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