Re: udev - TODO update

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:52:18PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 13 February 2004 01:16 am, Daniel Drake wrote:
> > Yes, the default behaviour creates a devices.tar.bz2 on shutdown and
> > restores it on bootup. As far as I understand it, thats only a temporary
> > thing, implemented before udev was creating so many nodes by default.
> >
> > There is some discussion here to remove this behaviour,
> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id8587
> 
> i've stopped doing this on my boxes just to see how far along udev has come 
> (and boy, it's almost there for everything i need it for :D) ...
> 
> i noticed that on my machines that use framebuffer devices, fbX wasnt being 
> created, and on my ppc laptop, some adb related-nodes werent being created, 
> so the way i've worked around it is to change the init scripts to 
> run /etc/udev/udev.local instead of untaring the devices.tar.bz2 ... this 
> script just creates a bunch of machine specific nodes via mknod and sets 
> their perms correctly

Where is the startup script in gentoo that does this?  I couldn't seem
to find it.

But I was able to blow away my whole /dev directory and reboot and have
udev create all of the nodes that I needed to startup.  That was
impressive.  Hm, Gentoo seems kinda nice now... :)

> i'm just glad udev is arch independent so i havent been forced back
> into devfs on some of my machine ;)

If udev ever gets any non-arch-independant code, please let me know, I
do not want this to happen.

thanks,

greg k-h


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