Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Mar 1998 18:55:41 +0200 (METDST) | From | Richard Guenther <> | Subject | Re: devfs patch v21 available |
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On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Richard Gooch wrote: > Hi, all. Version 21 of my devfs patch is now available [...] > Please, would people give this a final thrashing. I want to submit > this to Linus ASAP. Unless there are outstanding issues, I'm happy to > see it included in the mainstream kernel now.
It works for me (TM), apart from one bug and some (minor) flaws:
- The bug: /dev # ln -s ttyS1 mouse /dev # rm mouse /dev # ls mouse /bin/ls: mouse: no such file or directory /dev # ln -s ttyS0 mouse ln: cannot symbolic link 'ttyS0' to 'mouse': file exists /dev # ls mouse /bin/ls: mouse: no such file or directory
linking with ttyS1 again succeeds.
- SysVInit (v2.65f) seems to try to open /dev/console. So I see 'unable to open an initial console' on bootup until I mknod the console device into /dev (ext2) - SysVInit opens /dev/initctl on shutdown.... (pipe) - Autoloading the ide-cdrom module does not work!? Perhaps kerneld <-> kmod related? (modprobe ide-cd works) - mknod does not actually create a special device in /dev ? So /dev/video et al could not be simply mknodded.
Richard.
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