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authorWill Drewry <wad@chromium.org>2011-08-03 16:21:08 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-08-03 14:25:21 -1000
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Documentation: add pointer to name_to_dev_t for root= values
Update kernel-parameters.txt to point users to the authoritative comment for name_to_dev_t. In addition, updates other places where some name_to_dev_t behavior was discussed. All other references to root= appear to be for explicit sample usage or just side comments when discussing other kernel parameters. Signed-off-by: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/frv/booting.txt13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt14
3 files changed, 25 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/frv/booting.txt b/Documentation/frv/booting.txt
index ace200b7c214..37c4d84a0e57 100644
--- a/Documentation/frv/booting.txt
+++ b/Documentation/frv/booting.txt
@@ -106,13 +106,20 @@ separated by spaces:
To use the first on-chip serial port at baud rate 115200, no parity, 8
bits, and no flow control.
- (*) root=/dev/<xxxx>
+ (*) root=<xxxx>
- This specifies the device upon which the root filesystem resides. For
- example:
+ This specifies the device upon which the root filesystem resides. It
+ may be specified by major and minor number, device path, or even
+ partition uuid, if supported. For example:
/dev/nfs NFS root filesystem
/dev/mtdblock3 Fourth RedBoot partition on the System Flash
+ PARTUUID=00112233-4455-6677-8899-AABBCCDDEEFF/PARTNROFF=1
+ first partition after the partition with the given UUID
+ 253:0 Device with major 253 and minor 0
+
+ Authoritative information can be found in
+ "Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt".
(*) rw
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index d57f00d1bb25..865e39f1850c 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2245,6 +2245,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
root= [KNL] Root filesystem
+ See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
mount the root filesystem
diff --git a/Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt b/Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt
index c93bed66e25d..97d45f276fe6 100644
--- a/Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt
@@ -129,6 +129,20 @@ decimal 11 is the major of SCSI CD-ROMs, and the minor 0 stands for
the first of these. You can find out all valid major numbers by
looking into include/linux/major.h.
+In addition to major and minor numbers, if the device containing your
+root partition uses a partition table format with unique partition
+identifiers, then you may use them. For instance,
+"root=PARTUUID=00112233-4455-6677-8899-AABBCCDDEEFF". It is also
+possible to reference another partition on the same device using a
+known partition UUID as the starting point. For example,
+if partition 5 of the device has the UUID of
+00112233-4455-6677-8899-AABBCCDDEEFF then partition 3 may be found as
+follows:
+ PARTUUID=00112233-4455-6677-8899-AABBCCDDEEFF/PARTNROFF=-2
+
+Authoritative information can be found in
+"Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt".
+
2.2) ro, rw
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