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Quoted 3 lines · Franz Sirl
Hi,
finally I was able to test the new driver and except for the "return 0 instead of dev-irq" typo all was fine. I added a few minor changes based on the discussion with Vojtech though.
Hey cool!
Quoted 1 line
The hunk to
main.cis needed to be able to boot with DEVFS enabled.
Better just don't do devfs :-). But anyway...
Well I'm planing to add kernel version tagging of fstab line enties to util-linux. This seems to be the only way to make major/minor transitions (and the more I think about it the more I'm convinced that they will be unevitable at some not so distant point in time!)
Something along the lines of:
cat /etc/fstab:
/dev/hdc / ext3 v2.4,defaults 1 1/dev/sda1
/ ext3 v2.5,defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0 # /dev/loop1 /mnt/1 auto noauto,owner 0 0 # /dev/loop2 /mnt/2 auto noauto,owner 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
Would be *very* convenient for this purpose and solve 99.9999% percent of portability problems. Well the above syntax may be the esiest to imeplement however the below syntax would be perhaps more palatable:
2.5:/dev/sda1
/ ext3 ....
Opinnions?
perhaps a similar adjustments would be required for the kernel root parameter of course.
With something along
root=2.5:/dev/sda1,2.4:/dev/hdc
one could be living with... The respecive kernel would just pick the entry which is matching it's version and be fine.
Quoted 4 lines · Martin Dalecki
Quoted 1 line · Franz Sirl
The hunk to
main.cis needed to be able to boot with DEVFS enabled.Better just don't do devfs :-). But anyway...
I like it :-)
Quoted 22 lines
Well I'm planing to add kernel version tagging of fstab line enties to util-linux. This seems to be the only way to make major/minor transitions (and the more I think about it the more I'm convinced that they will be unevitable at some not so distant point in time!)
Something along the lines of:
cat
/etc/fstab:
/dev/hdc/ ext3 v2.4,defaults 1
1/dev/sda1
/ ext3 v2.5,defaults 1 1LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0 # /dev/loop1 /mnt/1 auto noauto,owner 0 0 # /dev/loop2 /mnt/2 auto noauto,owner 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
Quoted 8 lines
Would be *very* convenient for this purpose and solve 99.9999% percent of portability problems. Well the above syntax may be the esiest to imeplement however the below syntax would be perhaps more palatable:
2.5:/dev/sda1
/ ext3 ....Opinnions?
Well, the only time I would need something like that is for label/id-less stuff, with swap being the most annyoing one for me.
Quoted 2 lines
perhaps a similar adjustments would be required for the kernel root parameter of course.
Actually I would love to see something like root=LABEL:root_rh_on_40G on the commandline.
Franz.
Quoted 35 lines · Martin Dalecki
Quoted 5 lines · Franz Sirl
Hi,
finally I was able to test the new driver and except for the "return 0 instead of dev-irq" typo all was fine. I added a few minor changes based on the discussion with Vojtech though.
Hey cool!
Quoted 1 line
The hunk to
main.cis needed to be able to boot with DEVFS enabled.Better just don't do devfs :-). But anyway...
Well I'm planing to add kernel version tagging of fstab line enties to util-linux. This seems to be the only way to make major/minor transitions (and the more I think about it the more I'm convinced that they will be unevitable at some not so distant point in time!)
Something along the lines of:
cat
/etc/fstab:
/dev/hdc/ ext3 v2.4,defaults 1 1/dev/sda1
/ ext3 v2.5,defaults 1 1LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0 # /dev/loop1 /mnt/1 auto noauto,owner 0 0 # /dev/loop2 /mnt/2 auto noauto,owner 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
Quoted 8 lines
Would be *very* convenient for this purpose and solve 99.9999% percent of portability problems. Well the above syntax may be the esiest to imeplement however the below syntax would be perhaps more palatable:
2.5:/dev/sda1
/ ext3 ....Opinnions?
I don't like this much - while it solves a setup where you use both kernels, it isn't solving a 2.4->2.5 transition for not-really-skilled users. I think Linus's way is the best here - provide both /dev/sda, ... and provide also major/minor aliases (which will go away later) as /dev/hd*
Quoted 7 lines
perhaps a similar adjustments would be required for the kernel root parameter of course.
With something along
root=2.5:/dev/sda1,2.4:/dev/hdc
one could be living with... The respecive kernel would just pick the entry which is matching it's version and be fine.
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