Using mtdblock as root device

[Robert Kaiser]

Hi,

I just tried to build a system that uses jffs on /dev/mtdblock0 as root fs.
This didn't work right away because the kernel did not honor the option
"root=/dev/mtdblock0" . This is because mtdblock devices are not listed
in the list of known root devices in the kernel (see "root_dev_names" in file
init/main.c). After applying the attached patch, using mtdblock as rootfs
worked nicely.

Now my question is: is there any particular reason (other than "nobody has
told Linus") why this is not already in the standard kernel ?

If there isn't, should I go ahead and submit my patch to Linus ?


Cheers

Rob


----------------------------------------------------------------
Robert Kaiser                         email: rkaiser at sysgo.de
SYSGO RTS GmbH
Am Pfaffenstein 14                    phone: (49) 6136 9948-762
D-55270 Klein-Winternheim / Germany   fax:   (49) 6136 9948-10
-------------- next part --------------
An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed...
Name: patch-mtdblock-root
Url: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/attachments/20010306/72909696/attachment-0002.pl