On Sat, 2010-12-11 at 13:14 -0800, Evan Broder wrote: > Package: initramfs-tools > Version: 0.98.1 > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > User: ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com > Usertags: origin-ubuntu natty ubuntu-patch > > If you pass a root= argument with a numeric device number > (i.e. root=0806), that's currently resolved by running mknod to create > a /dev/root device with an appropriate major/minor number and setting > ROOT=/dev/root (the parse_numeric function in scripts/functions). [...] Maybe this feature should simply be deprecated. What do you use it for? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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