[PATCH 0/2] init: ensure that /dev/console and /dev/null are (nearly) always available in initramfs

Askar Safin <[email protected]> Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:03:10 +0000
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.initramfs,dev.linux.lists.patches,org.kernel.vger.linux-fsdevel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kbuild,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
This patchset is for VFS.

See commit messages for motivation and details.

Askar Safin (2):
  init: ensure that /dev/console is (nearly) always available in
    initramfs
  init: ensure that /dev/null is (nearly) always available in initramfs

 .../filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.rst    |  4 +--
 init/do_mounts.c                              | 11 ++++++++
 init/do_mounts.h                              |  2 ++
 init/initramfs.c                              |  2 ++
 init/main.c                                   |  6 +++-
 init/noinitramfs.c                            | 28 +++----------------
 usr/Makefile                                  |  2 +-
 usr/default_cpio_list                         |  6 +---
 8 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)


base-commit: 2961f841b025fb234860bac26dfb7fa7cb0fb122 (mainline)
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2.47.3