Re: [PATCH] KERN_INFO for devfs

Borsenkow Andrej (Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru)
Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:27:23 +0300


> I changed "none" to "devfs" in do_mount("none", "/dev", "devfs", 0,
""):
> "none is busy" is misleading at umount time :-)

File systems that do not have real devices behind them have "none" as
device. Please do not change it - it was correct. Having it later in
/proc/mounts may confuse some user-level tools. If you want to fix it -
fix umount to report something more sensible if device == none.

-andrej

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