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-rw-r--r--drivers/base/Kconfig7
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/devtmpfs.c5
-rw-r--r--fs/ramfs/inode.c2
-rw-r--r--include/linux/ramfs.h2
4 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig
index fd52c48..ef38aff 100644
--- a/drivers/base/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig
@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ config UEVENT_HELPER_PATH
config DEVTMPFS
bool "Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev"
- depends on HOTPLUG && SHMEM && TMPFS
+ depends on HOTPLUG
help
- This creates a tmpfs filesystem instance early at bootup.
+ This creates a tmpfs/ramfs filesystem instance early at bootup.
In this filesystem, the kernel driver core maintains device
nodes with their default names and permissions for all
registered devices with an assigned major/minor number.
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ config DEVTMPFS
functional /dev without any further help. It also allows simple
rescue systems, and reliably handles dynamic major/minor numbers.
+ Notice: if CONFIG_TMPFS isn't enabled, the simpler ramfs
+ file system will be used instead.
+
config DEVTMPFS_MOUNT
bool "Automount devtmpfs at /dev, after the kernel mounted the rootfs"
depends on DEVTMPFS
diff --git a/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c b/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c
index 057cf11..af06001 100644
--- a/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c
+++ b/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
#include <linux/namei.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/shmem_fs.h>
+#include <linux/ramfs.h>
#include <linux/cred.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/init_task.h>
@@ -45,7 +46,11 @@ __setup("devtmpfs.mount=", mount_param);
static int dev_get_sb(struct file_system_type *fs_type, int flags,
const char *dev_name, void *data, struct vfsmount *mnt)
{
+#ifdef CONFIG_TMPFS
return get_sb_single(fs_type, flags, data, shmem_fill_super, mnt);
+#else
+ return get_sb_single(fs_type, flags, data, ramfs_fill_super, mnt);
+#endif
}
static struct file_system_type dev_fs_type = {
diff --git a/fs/ramfs/inode.c b/fs/ramfs/inode.c
index c948534..f47cd21 100644
--- a/fs/ramfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ramfs/inode.c
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ static int ramfs_parse_options(char *data, struct ramfs_mount_opts *opts)
return 0;
}
-static int ramfs_fill_super(struct super_block * sb, void * data, int silent)
+int ramfs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
{
struct ramfs_fs_info *fsi;
struct inode *inode = NULL;
diff --git a/include/linux/ramfs.h b/include/linux/ramfs.h
index 4e768dd..8600508 100644
--- a/include/linux/ramfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/ramfs.h
@@ -20,4 +20,6 @@ extern const struct file_operations ramfs_file_operations;
extern const struct vm_operations_struct generic_file_vm_ops;
extern int __init init_rootfs(void);
+int ramfs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent);
+
#endif
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