From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udev for /dev
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 00:32:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040228003233.GJ13580@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040220062015.85721.qmail@web14907.mail.yahoo.com>
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 10:10:25PM -0800, Jon Smirl wrote:
> --- Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > The same here. init needs it.
> >
> > no, no one *needs* it ... i think i posted an e-mail here about it before but
> > it's only 'needed' if you want to see output before the *getty apps are
> > started. the kernel will open that device node before executing init so that
> > init will have the proper stdout file descriptor to write to. if you dont
> > have /dev/console, the kernel prints the warning about not being able to open
> > it, and then just runs init which works *fine* without the node.
> > -mike
> >
> Redhat stops the boot process with an error if /dev/console can't be opened.
> Only choice is to reboot the system. Maybe they adjust this in FC2 if they
> integrate udev.
Works for me here without that node, running rawhide (which is almost FC2).
thanks,
greg k-h
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-28 0:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-20 6:20 udev for /dev Jon Smirl
2004-02-20 6:26 ` Jon Smirl
2004-02-20 16:19 ` Jon Smirl
2004-02-20 16:36 ` John L Fjellstad
2004-02-20 16:50 ` Frédéric L. W. Meunier
2004-02-20 16:58 ` Frédéric L. W. Meunier
2004-02-20 17:13 ` Marco d'Itri
2004-02-20 17:38 ` Jon Smirl
2004-02-20 17:39 ` Marco d'Itri
2004-02-20 17:49 ` Jon Smirl
2004-02-20 19:25 ` Mike Frysinger
2004-02-20 21:41 ` Jon Smirl
2004-02-20 22:06 ` Jon Smirl
2004-02-23 7:37 ` mjl
2004-02-26 6:10 ` Jon Smirl
2004-02-28 0:32 ` Greg KH [this message]
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