From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sekhar Nori Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ARM: OMAP2+: enable devtmpfs and devtmpfs automount Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:04:31 +0530 Message-ID: <50B47B17.2040608@ti.com> References: <1353504411-19811-1-git-send-email-javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from bear.ext.ti.com ([192.94.94.41]:48259 "EHLO bear.ext.ti.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753313Ab2K0Ieu (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2012 03:34:50 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1353504411-19811-1-git-send-email-javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk> Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: Javier Martinez Canillas Cc: Tony Lindgren , Russell King , Santosh Shilimkar , Kevin Hilman , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org On 11/21/2012 6:56 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: > Since udev-182, udev no longer creates device nodes under /dev Nit: Looks like this happened from udev-176 onward. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.hotplug.devel/17230 Whoever is taking the patch can _probably_ fix it up while applying. > and this has to be managed by the kernel devtmpfs filesystem. > > This means that a kernel built with the current OMAP2+ config > will not boot on a system with a recent udev. > Also, it is good to have /dev automatically mounted since some > non-initramfs based setups assumes this and don't manually mount it. For curiosity sake, any examples of such setups? I am using fedora 17 on DaVinci and that doesn't seem to need it. Anyway, agreed that its better to keep it enabled. Thanks, Sekhar From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: nsekhar@ti.com (Sekhar Nori) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:04:31 +0530 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] ARM: OMAP2+: enable devtmpfs and devtmpfs automount In-Reply-To: <1353504411-19811-1-git-send-email-javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk> References: <1353504411-19811-1-git-send-email-javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk> Message-ID: <50B47B17.2040608@ti.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 11/21/2012 6:56 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: > Since udev-182, udev no longer creates device nodes under /dev Nit: Looks like this happened from udev-176 onward. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.hotplug.devel/17230 Whoever is taking the patch can _probably_ fix it up while applying. > and this has to be managed by the kernel devtmpfs filesystem. > > This means that a kernel built with the current OMAP2+ config > will not boot on a system with a recent udev. > Also, it is good to have /dev automatically mounted since some > non-initramfs based setups assumes this and don't manually mount it. For curiosity sake, any examples of such setups? I am using fedora 17 on DaVinci and that doesn't seem to need it. Anyway, agreed that its better to keep it enabled. Thanks, Sekhar