Re: [PATCH] NFS: Make NFS root work again

2007-06-18 Thread David Howells
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is not working, and how does this patch fix it? It turns out that this patch is unnecessary. The problem had to do with the initcalling of default_rootfs() (or lack of initcalling in this case). I fixed vmlinux.lds.S and it works now. David - To

Re: [PATCH] NFS: Make NFS root work again

2007-06-17 Thread Andi Kleen
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is not working, and how does this patch fix it? FWIW i use nfs root regularly for testing kernels and it works for me. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-fsdevel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [PATCH] NFS: Make NFS root work again

2007-06-16 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:40:03 +0100 David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Make NFS root work by creating a /root directory to satisfy the mount, otherwise the path lookup for the mount fails with ENOENT. Signed-off-by: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- init/do_mounts.c |5 -

Re: [PATCH] NFS: Make NFS root work again

2007-06-16 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Sat, 2007-06-16 at 09:15 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:40:03 +0100 David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Make NFS root work by creating a /root directory to satisfy the mount, otherwise the path lookup for the mount fails with ENOENT. Signed-off-by: David

Re: [PATCH] NFS: Make NFS root work again

2007-06-16 Thread Paul Mundt
On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 09:15:14AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:40:03 +0100 David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Make NFS root work by creating a /root directory to satisfy the mount, otherwise the path lookup for the mount fails with ENOENT. Am still awaiting a

[PATCH] NFS: Make NFS root work again

2007-06-07 Thread David Howells
Make NFS root work by creating a /root directory to satisfy the mount, otherwise the path lookup for the mount fails with ENOENT. Signed-off-by: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- init/do_mounts.c |5 - 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/init/do_mounts.c

Re: [PATCH] NFS: Make NFS root work again

2007-06-07 Thread Peter Staubach
David Howells wrote: Make NFS root work by creating a /root directory to satisfy the mount, otherwise the path lookup for the mount fails with ENOENT. Signed-off-by: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- init/do_mounts.c |5 - 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git

Re: [PATCH] NFS: Make NFS root work again

2007-06-07 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:40:03 +0100 David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Make NFS root work by creating a /root directory to satisfy the mount, otherwise the path lookup for the mount fails with ENOENT. What did we do to make it stop working, and when did we do it?? diff --git