[systemd-devel] [PATCH] Add support for "ROOT=" on the kernel command line

[Harald Hoyer]

On 15.01.2015 16:51, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> On 15.01.2015 16:45, Harald Hoyer wrote:
>> On 15.01.2015 16:24, harald at redhat.com wrote:
>>> From: Harald Hoyer <harald at redhat.com>
>>>
>>> "ROOT=" mounts the initial ramdisk with a tmpfs filesystem.
>>
>> Ok, not true. Omitting "root=" will mount the initial ramdisk as a tmpfs
>> filesystem, if tmpfs support is compiled in the kernel.
>>
>> Seems like the preferred way of having the initrd as tmpfs, is to specify
>> "ROOT=" instead of "root=".
>>
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6e19eded3684dc184181093af3bff2ff440f5b53
> 
> 

Thinking more about it, this would also require uppercase ROOTFSTYPE and
ROOTFSFLAGS to not conflict with the new definition in the kernel of "root" as
being the tmpfs.