The experimental root file system support in cifs.ko relies on
ipconfig to set up the network stack and then accessing the SMB share
that contains the rootfs files.
Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara (SUSE) <p...@cjr.nz>
---
net/ipv4/ipconfig.c | 10 ++++++++--
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
index 9bcca08efec9..32e20b758b68 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
@@ -1483,10 +1483,10 @@ static int __init ip_auto_config(void)
* missing values.
*/
if (ic_myaddr == NONE ||
-#ifdef CONFIG_ROOT_NFS
+#if defined(CONFIG_ROOT_NFS) || defined(CONFIG_CIFS_ROOT)
(root_server_addr == NONE &&
ic_servaddr == NONE &&
- ROOT_DEV == Root_NFS) ||
+ (ROOT_DEV == Root_NFS || ROOT_DEV == Root_CIFS)) ||
#endif
ic_first_dev->next) {
#ifdef IPCONFIG_DYNAMIC
@@ -1513,6 +1513,12 @@ static int __init ip_auto_config(void)
goto try_try_again;
}
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_ROOT
+ if (ROOT_DEV == Root_CIFS) {
+ pr_err("IP-Config: Retrying forever (CIFS
root)...\n");
+ goto try_try_again;
+ }
+#endif
if (--retries) {
pr_err("IP-Config: Reopening network
devices...\n");
--
2.23.0
