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authorChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>2010-09-17 10:54:37 -0400
committerTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2010-09-17 10:54:37 -0400
commit60ac03685bf513f9d9b6e8e098018b35309ed326 (patch)
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NFS: Clean up NFSROOT command line parsing
Clean up: To reduce confusion, rename nfs_root_name as nfs_root_parms, as this buffer contains more than just the name of the remote server. Introduce documenting comments around nfs_root_setup(). Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/nfs/nfsroot.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/nfs/nfsroot.c32
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfsroot.c b/fs/nfs/nfsroot.c
index df101d9f546a..169b67907a65 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/nfsroot.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/nfsroot.c
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
#define NFS_ROOT "/tftpboot/%s"
/* Parameters passed from the kernel command line */
-static char nfs_root_name[256] __initdata = "";
+static char nfs_root_parms[256] __initdata = "";
/* Address of NFS server */
static __be32 servaddr __initdata = 0;
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ static int __init root_nfs_init(void)
* be able to use the client IP address for the remote root
* directory (necessary for pure RARP booting).
*/
- if (root_nfs_name(nfs_root_name) < 0 ||
+ if (root_nfs_name(nfs_root_parms) < 0 ||
root_nfs_addr() < 0)
return -1;
@@ -380,23 +380,37 @@ static int __init root_nfs_init(void)
return 0;
}
-
/*
* Parse NFS server and directory information passed on the kernel
* command line.
+ *
+ * nfsroot=[<server-ip>:]<root-dir>[,<nfs-options>]
+ *
+ * If there is a "%s" token in the <root-dir> string, it is replaced
+ * by the ASCII-representation of the client's IP address.
*/
static int __init nfs_root_setup(char *line)
{
ROOT_DEV = Root_NFS;
+
if (line[0] == '/' || line[0] == ',' || (line[0] >= '0' && line[0] <= '9')) {
- strlcpy(nfs_root_name, line, sizeof(nfs_root_name));
+ strlcpy(nfs_root_parms, line, sizeof(nfs_root_parms));
} else {
- int n = strlen(line) + sizeof(NFS_ROOT) - 1;
- if (n >= sizeof(nfs_root_name))
- line[sizeof(nfs_root_name) - sizeof(NFS_ROOT) - 2] = '\0';
- sprintf(nfs_root_name, NFS_ROOT, line);
+ size_t n = strlen(line) + sizeof(NFS_ROOT) - 1;
+ if (n >= sizeof(nfs_root_parms))
+ line[sizeof(nfs_root_parms) - sizeof(NFS_ROOT) - 2] = '\0';
+ sprintf(nfs_root_parms, NFS_ROOT, line);
}
- root_server_addr = root_nfs_parse_addr(nfs_root_name);
+
+ /*
+ * Extract the IP address of the NFS server containing our
+ * root file system, if one was specified.
+ *
+ * Note: root_nfs_parse_addr() removes the server-ip from
+ * nfs_root_parms, if it exists.
+ */
+ root_server_addr = root_nfs_parse_addr(nfs_root_parms);
+
return 1;
}