Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Jun 2005 17:23:58 +0800 | From | Coywolf Qi Hunt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] devfs: remove devfs from Kconfig preventing it from being built |
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On 6/22/05, J.A. Magallon <jamagallon@able.es> wrote: > > 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. > > ;)
I guess we've already got one in initramfs. The "static" /dev is still necessary. I once killed my udevd, and the static /dev revealed.
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