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SubjectRe: [PATCH] devfs: remove devfs from Kconfig preventing it from being built

On 06.22, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote:
> On 6/22/05, David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> > From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
> > Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 21:13:30 -0700
> >
> > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 03:59:19PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> > > > From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
> > > > Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:24:19 -0700
> > > >
> > > > However, this does mean I do need to reinstall a couple
> > > > debian boxes here to something newer before I can continue
> > > > doing kernel work in 2.6.x on them.
> > >
> > > Those boxes rely on devfs?
> >
> > Yeah, when I forget to turn on DEVFS_FS and DEVFS_MOUNT in the
> > kernel config the machine won't boot. :-)
> >
> > > Can't you just grab the "static dev" debian package and continue on?
> > > I'm sure there is one in there somewhere (don't really know for sure,
> > > not running debian anywhere here, sorry.)
> > >
> > > Or how about a tarball of a /dev tree? Would that help you out?
>
> There's /sbin/MAKEDEV on debian.
>
> >
> > I don't know if Debian has such a package.
> >
> > Don't worry, I'll take care of this by simply reinstalling
> > and thus moving to udev.
>
> Moving to udev is right. Still you need a "static dev" in case your
> udev not working.
>
> Use /sbin/MAKEDEV from makedev package.
>

A nice addition to udev package would be an standard minimal /dev tree
to allow booting till init and running udev as the first thing...
A tar.gz you could just unpack on a new box or on an initrd.

;)

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