From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:15:17 +0200
Subject: [Buildroot] devtmpfs and initramfs
In-Reply-To: <201107191323.36347.arnout@mind.be> (Arnout Vandecappelle's
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>>>>> "Arnout" == Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be> writes:

Hi,

 Arnout> Does anyone know a more elegant solution?
 >> 
 >> Not really - Besides adding a devtmps_mount() call in kernel_init(), but
 >> that's kind of icky as well.

 Arnout>  We could of course use the same trick as for GENERIC_SERIAL...

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.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard