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Subject: Re: makedevs vs. device_table-minimal.txt
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Hello!

> after commit 66aa4ed9410ba1d652e40571f48a985337e56a26
> (device_table-minimal.txt: fix input device nodes path. Input event
> device nodes are usually under /dev/input.) in /dev of my rootfs I
> don't have any event device node.
> 
> Any obvious reason why makedevs would fail to create /dev/input/eventX ?

Please note that this is linux-kexecboot initramfs, not common image rootfs.
We have no device manager (udev/mdev) there.
And (as I understand image.bbclass) there is no possibility to create 
directory in rootfs from recipe before makedevs call.

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Yuri Bushmelev