From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 03:26:08 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v3] fs/common: Create initial console device In-Reply-To: <1352108694-11875-1-git-send-email-markos.chandras@gmail.com> References: <1352108694-11875-1-git-send-email-markos.chandras@gmail.com> Message-ID: <509DBB40.1050100@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 11/05/12 10:44, Markos Chandras wrote: > From: Markos Chandras > > A /dev/console node must be present in rootfs when the Linux kernel > boots otherwise the kernel will print the following warning: > "Warning: unable to open an initial console" > > This is because when we use an initramfs the /dev directory is not > populated at this point. This can cause problems when a program > (e.g ldso with early debugging enabled) opens a standard file > descriptor for read/write before these descriptors are actually > created by the init process later on. > > Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) Tested-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) 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