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Message-ID: <b74ea810-5b6c-404d-8cee-7d3d3922205e@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2023 17:05:56 -0500
From: Stefan Berger <stefanb@...ux.ibm.com>
To: Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] fix rootfstype=tmpfs
On 11/1/23 09:10, Stefan Berger wrote:
>
>
> On 2/21/23 16:04, Rob Landley wrote:
>> Wire up rootfstype=tmpfs to force rootfs to be tmpfs even when you
>> specify root=
>>
>> Initramfs automatically uses tmpfs (if available) when you DON'T
>> specify a
>> root= fallback root to mount over initramfs, but some people can't NOT do
can't NOT -> cannot
>> that for some reason (old bootloaders), so let rootfstype=tmpfs
>> override it.
>>
>> My original code tried to do this 10 years ago but got the test wrong,
>> and nobody's corrected it since, so here you go...
I think this sentence can be dropped.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
>
> I would like to be able to have this for some work with OpenBMC and
> ideally it would propagate to one of the recent kernels with a Fixes tag
> like this?
>
Can you repost this patch or should I do it?
Regards,
Stefan
> Fixes: 6e19eded3684 ("initmpfs: use initramfs if rootfstype= or root=
> specified")
>
> Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@...ux.ibm.com>
> Tested-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@...ux.ibm.com>
>
>>
>> See https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2207.3/06939.html
>> ---
>> init/do_mounts.c | 4 ++--
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/init/do_mounts.c b/init/do_mounts.c
>> index 811e94daf0a8..01d80fb828fd 100644
>> --- a/init/do_mounts.c
>> +++ b/init/do_mounts.c
>> @@ -665,7 +665,7 @@ struct file_system_type rootfs_fs_type = {
>> void __init init_rootfs(void)
>> {
>> - if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TMPFS) && !saved_root_name[0] &&
>> - (!root_fs_names || strstr(root_fs_names, "tmpfs")))
>> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TMPFS) && (!root_fs_names ?
>> !saved_root_name[0] :
>> + !!strstr(root_fs_names, "tmpfs")))
>> is_tmpfs = true;
>> }
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