It doesn't work. I tested this both in system booted using initramfs and in system booted from real root device directly
Signed-off-by: Askar Safin <safinas...@gmail.com> --- Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt index 27835389ca49..6ce0940233a8 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt @@ -138,12 +138,6 @@ number for BSD PTY devices. As of Linux 2.1.115, this is no longer supported. Use major numbers 2 and 3. - 4 block Aliases for dynamically allocated major devices to be used - when its not possible to create the real device nodes - because the root filesystem is mounted read-only. - - 0 = /dev/root - 5 char Alternate TTY devices 0 = /dev/tty Current TTY device 1 = /dev/console System console -- 2.47.2