Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: cerberus errors on 2.4.19 (ide dma related) | | From | Ed Sweetman <> | | Date | 18 Aug 2002 18:55:02 -0400 |
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On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 18:41, Andrew Rodland wrote: > On 18 Aug 2002 14:29:23 -0400 > Ed Sweetman <safemode@speakeasy.net> wrote: > > > I know i have no device nodes. I removed them all before installing > > devfs. > > Well then you have no device nodes without devfs. D'uh? :) > > > the devfs documentation says it doesn't need to have devfs > > mounted to work, but this doesn't seem to be true at all. > > No, the devfs documentation says that it is "safe" to have devfs > compiled in and not use it -- you will just use the standard /dev. It > does not imply in any way that you will be using devfs if you don't > mount it, it says that if you choose _not_ to use devfs, then it will be > able to fall cleanly back to standard /dev. In other words, > CONFIG_DEVFS_FS provides the _ability_ to use devfs, not a > _requirement_. > > That's all it says. > To assume that it means anything else would be incredibly silly.
ok, so that's over and done with. It's not the topic of the thread and i've already fixed things a while ago.
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