linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] nfs: Don't try mounting device as nfs root unless type fully matches

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Message-ID: <CA+1xoqfv82ngQ4oc5uozZQjN7PipWVjVu670-uUGC5o_3Nec9A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:21:12 +0200
From:	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>
To:	"Myklebust, Trond" <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
Cc:	Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>, Jim Rees <rees@...ch.edu>,
	Lukas Razik <linux@...ik.name>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfs: Don't try mounting device as nfs root unless type
 fully matches

On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Myklebust, Trond
<Trond.Myklebust@...app.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-03-31 at 11:27 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
>> Oops.  Trond?  This got dropped somewhere.
>
> I don't own the 'init' directory, and since quite frankly this isn't
> related to NFS at all, it should be sent to Linus directly.
>
> I'm quite happy to ack the patch if that would help.

The patch which has triggered this whole story (6829a048 ("NFS: Retry
mounting NFSROOT")) modified init/ as well, and went in through the
NFS tree. Can't this patch follow the same path?

Anyhow, I've Cc'ed Linus in hopes that this patch can somehow find
it's way into 3.4.
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