[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] linux: Get rid of 000-keep_initrafs_the_default.patch

[Jonas Gorski]

Hi,

On 22 July 2016 at 12:18, Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com> wrote:
> With that patch in place for initramfs no additional options are
> reported for "/" partition. What's really important is missing
> info about sizes. Which in its turn makes opkg think that there's
> no space on "/" partition to install software.
>
> I understand that's a sort of corner-case, people rarely install
> packages on ramfs but anyways why not?
>
> Just in case that's what I see with the patch:
> ---------------------->8--------------------
> root at lede:/# cat /proc/mounts
> rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
> proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime 0 0
> sysfs /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime 0 0
> tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime 0 0
> tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,size=512k,mode=755 0 0
> devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,mode=600 0 0
> debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,noatime 0 0
> ---------------------->8--------------------
>
> And without:
> ---------------------->8--------------------
> root at lede:/# cat /proc/mounts
> rootfs / rootfs rw,size=256168k,nr_inodes=32021 0 0
> proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime 0 0
> sysfs /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime 0 0
> tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime 0 0
> tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,size=512k,mode=755 0 0
> devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,mode=600 0 0
> debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,noatime 0 0
> ---------------------->8--------------------
>
> Note how different is entry for rootfs.
>
> And given there's no known rationale for that patch we're
> getting rid of it.

I gave this a small spin on brcm63xx and didn't see anything broken by
it. Actually I didn't see anything changing at all, the /proc/mounts
contents stayed the same with or without the patch.


Jonas
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