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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /dev
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On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 23:33 +0200, Robert Schwebel wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:15:13AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > Here's the devtmpfs patch again.
>
> As an embedded distro maintainer, I'd really like such an approach. With
> ptxdist, we can today build the complete rootfs for an embedded system
> without root permissions - just if we want to nfs-root boot the boards
> during development, it doesn't work, because you have to create
> /dev/console, /dev/null and /dev/zero and that works only for root.

Have you tried genext2fs ? It lets you create a filesystem image
complete with device nodes as a normal user.

Xav





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