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

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Date:	Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:24:53 +0000
From:	"Myklebust, Trond" <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
To:	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.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, 2012-03-31 at 23:21 +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:
> 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?

No. It touches generic code unlike the above patch, which _only_ touches
NFS-related code.

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

Don't just Cc: Linus on this thread: send the patch to him directly (and
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org).

-- 
Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer

NetApp
Trond.Myklebust@...app.com
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