From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:02:50 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Getting It into Compact Flash In-Reply-To: <20121213220434.GA819@mail.sceen.net> References: <000901cdd883$889a6e70$99cf4b50$@co.uk> <50CA4A8F.1050002@mind.be> <20121213220434.GA819@mail.sceen.net> Message-ID: <50CA5E9A.1090505@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 13/12/12 23:04, Richard Braun wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:37:19PM +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote: >> - if you use anything else than static device management, the devtmps >> will not be mounted automatically by the kernel; the cpio filesystem >> adds a /init script that mounts it for you. > > The kernel has provided the ability to automatically mount devtmpfs for > quite some time now. He just needs to make sure the option is selected > in the kernel configuration. But it doesn't automount devtmpfs when the initramfs is mounted. That's why fs/cpio/init exists. (Come to think of it, it is possible that an ext2 initrd is not considered the same as an initramfs and the kernel _will_ mount devtmpfs - I'm not sure). Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286540 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F