From: Joern Engel <joern@wh.fh-wedel.de>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 12:25:46 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: [MTD] Allow alternate JFFS2 mount variant for root filesystem.
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.18-rc1~1105^2~15
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e9482b4374e2596e6f3f1ab30c4ea469f4ac6311;p=linux-2.6

[MTD] Allow alternate JFFS2 mount variant for root filesystem.

With this patch, "root=mtd3" and "root=mtd:foo" work for a JFFS2 rootfs.

Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@wh.fh-wedel.de>
---

diff --git a/init/do_mounts.c b/init/do_mounts.c
index f4b7b9d278..21b3b8f33a 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts.c
@@ -409,6 +409,10 @@ void __init prepare_namespace(void)
 
 	if (saved_root_name[0]) {
 		root_device_name = saved_root_name;
+		if (!strncmp(root_device_name, "mtd", 3)) {
+			mount_block_root(root_device_name, root_mountflags);
+			goto out;
+		}
 		ROOT_DEV = name_to_dev_t(root_device_name);
 		if (strncmp(root_device_name, "/dev/", 5) == 0)
 			root_device_name += 5;