From: nsekhar@ti.com (Sekhar Nori)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] ARM: OMAP2+: enable devtmpfs and devtmpfs automount
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:04:31 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50B47B17.2040608@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1353504411-19811-1-git-send-email-javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk>
On 11/21/2012 6:56 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> Since udev-182, udev no longer creates device nodes under /dev
Nit: Looks like this happened from udev-176 onward.
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.hotplug.devel/17230
Whoever is taking the patch can _probably_ fix it up while applying.
> and this has to be managed by the kernel devtmpfs filesystem.
>
> This means that a kernel built with the current OMAP2+ config
> will not boot on a system with a recent udev.
> Also, it is good to have /dev automatically mounted since some
> non-initramfs based setups assumes this and don't manually mount it.
For curiosity sake, any examples of such setups? I am using fedora 17 on
DaVinci and that doesn't seem to need it. Anyway, agreed that its better
to keep it enabled.
Thanks,
Sekhar
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-27 8:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-21 13:26 [PATCH 1/1] ARM: OMAP2+: enable devtmpfs and devtmpfs automount Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-11-27 8:34 ` Sekhar Nori [this message]
2012-11-27 9:20 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-12-14 18:10 ` Tony Lindgren
2012-12-14 18:16 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
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