On Mon 2015-05-25 10:47:50, Vishnu Pratap Singh wrote: > if create_dev() function fails to create the root mount device (/dev/root), > then it goes to panic as root device not found but there is no check/log > present in case of failure, So i have added the log in case it fails to create > the root device. It will help in debugging. > > Signed-off-by: Vishnu Pratap Singh <vishnu...@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pa...@ucw.cz> > --- > init/do_mounts.c | 3 ++- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/init/do_mounts.c b/init/do_mounts.c > index 8369ffa..a68aaf6 100644 > --- a/init/do_mounts.c > +++ b/init/do_mounts.c > @@ -532,7 +532,8 @@ void __init mount_root(void) > } > #endif > #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK > - create_dev("/dev/root", ROOT_DEV); > + if(create_dev("/dev/root", ROOT_DEV) < 0) > + printk(KERN_ERR "Failed to create %s device !!\n", "/dev/root"); But please make it "if (" and " !!" -> "!" Thanks, Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/