Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Jun 2005 21:55:22 +0000 | From | "J.A. Magallon" <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] ndevfs - a "nano" devfs |
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On 06.24, Mike Bell wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 01:18:08AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > Anyway, here's yet-another-ramfs-based filesystem, ndevfs. It's a very > > tiny: > ... > > replacement for devfs for those embedded users who just can't live > > without the damm thing. It doesn't allow subdirectories, and only uses > > LSB compliant names. But it works, and should be enough for people to > > use, if they just can't wean themselves off of the idea of an in-kernel > > fs to provide device nodes. > > As far as ideas go, this is pretty much all I asked for. A simple kernel > filesystem to export device nodes with names, rather than just the > numbers as sysfs does. The "detecting non-existant device names" thing > never meant anything to me personally, and if anyone does care this > gives them a simple place to add such a hook - unlike device names I > don't see why such a thing would be difficult to maintain as a patch. >
I had always asked for the simpler and minimal /dev to let a system boot and reach udev start, and I think this is even better !!
> > What's the method for bootstrapping this filesystem onto a system? Is > a mount from early userspace the only way you'd accept, or would a > kernel parameter to automount over /dev as devfs does be tolerable? >
I got sad when I read I did not support directories and so on, because that meant I could not run udev on it, but I have thought on an alernative for early userspace: - mount ndevfs on /mnt - cp -a /mnt /dev - umount /mnt - let init run /etc/rc.d/rc till it gets to mount /dev and start udev
Just a question (kinda newbie's question):
Does ndevfs to be mounted when a device is detected ? Or will it show all the registered devices when mounted ?
TIA
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