[Buildroot] initramfs doesn't need root to create an image

[Nigel Kukard <nkukard@lbsd.net>]

>  >> > Attached a patch which removes the requirement on fakeroot & makedevs
>  >> > and prevents files from being created in /dev instead of devices when
>  >> > one builds buildroot as a non-priv user.
>  >> 
>  >> Why? Was there a problem with fakeroot?
> 
>  Nigel> Not fakeroot itself, but you cannot create a device if you're
>  Nigel> a non-priv user. So ... nothing fails, makedevs generates
>  Nigel> lovely zero size files instead of devices & fakeroot appears
>  Nigel> to hide the errors.
> 
> But that's the point of fakeroot. Applications run from within
> fakeroot believes the trickery and sees the (fake) device nodes. I
> haven't looked into the initramfs stuff, but why wouldn't that work
> there as well?

Does fakeroot keep device-special information if you create devices
inside its environment? ie. if you create a /dev/hda inside a fakeroot
using mknod, tar it up, exit fakeroot, untar it with admin privs, is it
still a device special file?

If it is (which would be damn awesome), then with a few less lines of
modifications and minus my perl script we can take the cpio file
generation out of the kernel build and do it ourselves in the fakeroot.

-N
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