Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 18 Aug 2002 18:41:35 -0400 | From | Andrew Rodland <> | Subject | Re: cerberus errors on 2.4.19 (ide dma related) |
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On 18 Aug 2002 14:29:23 -0400 Ed Sweetman <safemode@speakeasy.net> wrote:
> I know i have no device nodes. I removed them all before installing > devfs.
Well then you have no device nodes without devfs. D'uh? :)
> the devfs documentation says it doesn't need to have devfs > mounted to work, but this doesn't seem to be true at all.
No, the devfs documentation says that it is "safe" to have devfs compiled in and not use it -- you will just use the standard /dev. It does not imply in any way that you will be using devfs if you don't mount it, it says that if you choose _not_ to use devfs, then it will be able to fall cleanly back to standard /dev. In other words, CONFIG_DEVFS_FS provides the _ability_ to use devfs, not a _requirement_.
That's all it says. To assume that it means anything else would be incredibly silly. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] |  |