From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:10:45 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] devtmpfs and initramfs In-Reply-To: <201107201057.48006.arnout@mind.be> References: <201107191222.19313.arnout@mind.be> <201107201057.48006.arnout@mind.be> Message-ID: <201107201710.45727.arnout@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Wednesday 20 July 2011 10:57:47, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote: > On Wednesday 20 July 2011 10:48:28, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > > > We could, or adjust initramfs.mk to add a small shellscript as /init > > > rather than just a symlink: > > > > > > #!/bin/sh > > > # devtmpfs does not get automounted for initramfs'es > > > /bin/mount -t devtmpfs devtmpfs /dev > > > exec /sbin/init $* > > > > > > Unless BR2_ROOTFS_DEVICE_CREATION_STATIC is enabled. > > > > Sorry, but this solution smells just like my socks. I think wk can find a > > better one :) > > Yeah, I also would prefer not to proliferate the number of ways that the > init process is influenced... > > That said, the inittab solution isn't that good either. I guess there is > a reason why all distros have an S01mountall... Okay, I should have shut up and listened to the buildroot master... The inittab thing won't work (well) because init needs /dev to have a console. I'll see if I can produce a patch. 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: 31BB CF53 8660 6F88 345D 54CC A836 5879 20D7 CF43