From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262861AbTFOVHC (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jun 2003 17:07:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262872AbTFOVHC (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jun 2003 17:07:02 -0400 Received: from mail2.ewetel.de ([212.6.122.18]:1993 "EHLO mail2.ewetel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262861AbTFOVHB (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jun 2003 17:07:01 -0400 To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] make cramfs look less hostile In-Reply-To: <20030615183011$3fc0@gated-at.bofh.it> References: <20030615161009$6dde@gated-at.bofh.it> <20030615174004$76d0@gated-at.bofh.it> <20030615175007$7f59@gated-at.bofh.it> <20030615175012$0573@gated-at.bofh.it> <20030615181004$3663@gated-at.bofh.it> <20030615181010$7f10@gated-at.bofh.it> <20030615182013$7a4e@gated-at.bofh.it> <20030615183011$3fc0@gated-at.bofh.it> Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 23:20:19 +0200 Message-Id: From: Pascal Schmidt X-CheckCompat: OK Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 20:30:11 +0200, you wrote in linux.kernel: > The only places where this should happen is mounting the rootfs. > mount(8) has it's own filesystem type detection code and doesn't > call mount(2) unless it found a matching filesystem type. Not everybody uses mount(8) from util-linux... I don't think the more simplicistic versions in embedded systems will even want to do their own type detection. ;) -- Ciao, Pascal