The patch titled
NFS: make NFS root work again
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
nfs-make-nfs-root-work-again.patch
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Subject: NFS: make NFS root work again
From: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Make NFS root work by creating a "/root" directory to satisfy the mount,
otherwise the path lookup for the mount fails with ENOENT.
(akpm: stalled, awaiting a description of when and in what fashion nfsroot
broke)
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
init/do_mounts.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN init/do_mounts.c~nfs-make-nfs-root-work-again init/do_mounts.c
--- a/init/do_mounts.c~nfs-make-nfs-root-work-again
+++ a/init/do_mounts.c
@@ -281,7 +281,10 @@ static void __init get_fs_names(char *pa
static int __init do_mount_root(char *name, char *fs, int flags, void *data)
{
- int err = sys_mount(name, "/root", fs, flags, data);
+ int err;
+
+ sys_mkdir("/root", 0755);
+ err = sys_mount(name, "/root", fs, flags, data);
if (err)
return err;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx are
nommu-report-correct-errno-in-message.patch
ramfs-nommu-missed-posix-uid-gid-inode-attribute-checking.patch
frv-build-fix.patch
nfs-make-nfs-root-work-again.patch
lots-of-architectures-enable-arbitary-speed-tty-support.patch
nommu-present-backing-device-capabilities-for-mtd.patch
nommu-add-support-for-direct-mapping-through-mtdconcat.patch
nommu-make-it-possible-for-romfs-to-use-mtd-devices.patch
romfs-printk-format-warnings.patch
document-page_mkwrite-locking.patch
nommu-stub-expand_stack-for-nommu-case.patch
afs-implement-file-locking.patch
afs-drop-explicit-extern.patch
coredump-masking-bound-suid_dumpable-sysctl.patch
coredump-masking-reimplementation-of-dumpable-using-two-flags.patch
coredump-masking-reimplementation-of-dumpable-using-two-flags-fix.patch
coredump-masking-add-an-interface-for-core-dump-filter.patch
coredump-masking-elf-enable-core-dump-filtering.patch
coredump-masking-elf-fdpic-remove-an-unused-argument.patch
coredump-masking-elf-fdpic-enable-core-dump-filtering.patch
coredump-masking-documentation-for-proc-pid-coredump_filter.patch
mutex-subsystem-synchro-test-module.patch
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