Re: how to use udev

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 06:10:09AM +0000, Roman Duka wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> >>- I didn't switch my system to kernel 2.6.0 and udev, I am trying to 
> >>test it within initrd (Initial Ram Disk), so what I have is a 
> >>subdirectory in my home directory, where I installed busybox, bash, 
> >>insmod, modprobe, hotplug scripts and udev, plus the needed shared 
> >>libraries in /lib. Note I installed udev with the following command 
> >>"make DESTDIR=mydir install" i.e. I didn't use "prefix" so all the 
> >>config files etc should be relative to the root directory, and I've 
> >>checked them, they're fine. I created a initrd and put it on a CD-RW 
> >>disk and that's what I am booting from and testing udev. My question is, 
> >>does running udev withing initrd make any impact on its operations?
> >
> >
> >It shouldn't.  You built the klibc version, right?
> >
> no I didn't, udev was linked against glibc, does it have to be linked 
> against klibc? I mean I have glibc.so.6 and ld-linux.so.2 in my initrd 
> environment
> roman@athlon1000:~/kernel/udev-012> ldd udev
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4001e000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

As long are you are sure udev is able to run properly, no, that's fine.
But why not try using a build against klibc, that would remove any need
for glibc.

thanks,

greg k-h


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