Bug#696292: For 9p root filesystems, kernel ignores root=$NAME option on command line, and uses /dev/root as mount tag
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 06:07:24PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 06:50:36PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 12:38:55AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > When using an initramfs, implementation of the 'root' kernel parameter
> > > is the responsibility of the initramfs!
> > I'm not using an initramfs. The kernel supports 9p root filesystems
> > without one, apart from using "/dev/root" as the mount tag instead of
> > the value from the kernel command line.
>
> Except for mips, there exists no non-initramfs Linux kernels in Debian.
Ah, I missed the more important detail: the Debian kernel doesn't have
9pnet_virtio and supporting modules built in, so this wouldn't work
anyway.
The bug still exists, but since in practice it'll only matter for
upstream kernels, I'll have to address it there instead.
Sorry for the noise,
Josh Triplett
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