Re: [Evms-devel] Re: [PATCH] EVMS core 2/4: evms.h

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> root device should be in do_mount.c and not in obscure headers.

No, they should _not_ be in do_mount.c either. They should be in the 
driver registration, and do_mount.c should not have a random list of 
devices. 

I'm not accepting do_mount.c expansion here, simply because I don't want 
to help a horribly broken interface. You can always use a hex number 
(which is what things like lilo will install anyway, I believe, rather 
than using the "root=/dev/xxx" command line), and if people get too tired 
about remembering numbers, maybe somebody who cares will step up to the 
plate and write a reverse of "__bdevname()" and do it right.

Hint: see __bdevname in fs/block_dev.c, and realize that it does the 
"kdev->name" translation without _any_ tables at all. Think about doing 
the same the other way, by just walking the registered block devices.

		Linus