The patch titled Subject: init/do_mounts: better syntax description has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is init-do_mounts-better-syntax-description.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/init-do_mounts-better-syntax-description.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/init-do_mounts-better-syntax-description.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> Subject: init/do_mounts: better syntax description Specify hex device number unambiguously. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- init/do_mounts.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN init/do_mounts.c~init-do_mounts-better-syntax-description init/do_mounts.c --- a/init/do_mounts.c~init-do_mounts-better-syntax-description +++ a/init/do_mounts.c @@ -182,7 +182,8 @@ done: /* * Convert a name into device number. We accept the following variants: * - * 1) device number in hexadecimal represents itself + * 1) <hex_major><hex_minor> device number in hexadecimal represents itself + * no leading 0x, for example b302. * 2) /dev/nfs represents Root_NFS (0xff) * 3) /dev/<disk_name> represents the device number of disk * 4) /dev/<disk_name><decimal> represents the device number _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from pavel@xxxxxx are input-route-kbd-leds-through-the-generic-leds-layer.patch lib-vsprintf-add-%pt-format-specifier.patch init-do_mounts-better-syntax-description.patch linux-next.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html