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  • Kay Sievers's avatar
    block: do_mounts - accept root=<non-existant partition> · 30f2f0eb
    Kay Sievers authored May 06, 2008
    
    
    Some devices, like md, may create partitions only at first access,
    so allow root= to be set to a valid non-existant partition of an
    existing disk. This applies only to non-initramfs root mounting.
    
    This fixes a regression from 2.6.24 which did allow this to happen and
    broke some users machines :(
    
    Acked-by: default avatarNeil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
    Tested-by: default avatarJoao Luis Meloni Assirati <assirati@nonada.if.usp.br>
    Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
    30f2f0eb