From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Moulding Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 13:18:51 -0600 (MDT) Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] Create /dev/null device node when building a cpio rootfs In-Reply-To: <535FF178.2090507@mind.be> References: <1398784378-20251-1-git-send-email-dan.moulding@rackwareinc.com> <1398784378-20251-2-git-send-email-dan.moulding@rackwareinc.com> <535FF178.2090507@mind.be> Message-ID: <1398799131.565731726@apps.rackspace.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 12:37pm, "Arnout Vandecappelle" said: > > How is this issue limited to the cpio rootfs? You'll have the same issue > with any rootfs, right? Absolutely. But it was only making /dev/console for cpio... so I decided to follow suit, thinking maybe there was a good reason for it. > > So perhaps a better solution is to move /dev/console and /dev/null from > device_table_dev.txt to device_table.txt. > Agreed. > IOW this approach was suggested before but not really picked up. > Yes. And in fact, I had stumbled upon these past discussions when Googling about this. I just wasn't sure why it never got picked up. Cheers, -- Dan