Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 2 Jan 2004 22:04:39 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: udev and devfs - The final word |
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On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 06:17:43PM -0600, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > On Wednesday, Dec 31, 2003, at 15:52 US/Central, Tommi Virtanen wrote: > >I think devfs names are accepted as root= arguments, so that's a bit of > >a loss.. with udev, your /dev and your root= are equal only if you > >follow the standard naming. > > > >For root=, I can see how early userspace can move that to userspace. > >But what about swsuspend? > > > >Are there any more kernel options taking file names? I think now would > >be a good time to stop adding more of them :) > > "console=" takes driver-supplied names which usually happen to match > /dev node names. For example, drivers/serial/8250.c names itself > "ttyS", so "console=ttyS0" will end up going to that driver, regardless > of the state of /dev.
These are just string matches that the different console drivers use. They have nothing to do with an actual /dev node.
thanks,
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