Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /dev | | From | Xavier Bestel <> | | Date | Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:25:40 +0200 |
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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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