From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 01:41:15 +0000 Subject: Re: udev - TODO update Message-Id: <20040217014115.GB3596@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <20040212234538.GC21117@vrfy.org> In-Reply-To: <20040212234538.GC21117@vrfy.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:52:18PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Friday 13 February 2004 01:16 am, Daniel Drake wrote: > > Yes, the default behaviour creates a devices.tar.bz2 on shutdown and > > restores it on bootup. As far as I understand it, thats only a temporary > > thing, implemented before udev was creating so many nodes by default. > > > > There is some discussion here to remove this behaviour, > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id8587 > > i've stopped doing this on my boxes just to see how far along udev has come > (and boy, it's almost there for everything i need it for :D) ... > > i noticed that on my machines that use framebuffer devices, fbX wasnt being > created, and on my ppc laptop, some adb related-nodes werent being created, > so the way i've worked around it is to change the init scripts to > run /etc/udev/udev.local instead of untaring the devices.tar.bz2 ... this > script just creates a bunch of machine specific nodes via mknod and sets > their perms correctly Where is the startup script in gentoo that does this? I couldn't seem to find it. But I was able to blow away my whole /dev directory and reboot and have udev create all of the nodes that I needed to startup. That was impressive. Hm, Gentoo seems kinda nice now... :) > i'm just glad udev is arch independent so i havent been forced back > into devfs on some of my machine ;) If udev ever gets any non-arch-independant code, please let me know, I do not want this to happen. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id56&alloc_id438&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel