| Date | Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:57:54 -0700 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] driver-core: devtmpfs - driver core maintained /dev tmpfs |
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On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 03:23:42PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> Devtmpfs lets the kernel create a tmpfs very early at kernel > initialization, before any driver core device is registered. Every > device with a major/minor will have a device node created in this > tmpfs instance. After the rootfs is mounted by the kernel, the > populated tmpfs is mounted at /dev. In initramfs, it can be moved to > the manually mounted root filesystem before /sbin/init is executed.
Why can't the initramfs create /dev and populate it?
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