From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 00:32:33 +0000 Subject: Re: udev for /dev Message-Id: <20040228003233.GJ13580@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <20040220062015.85721.qmail@web14907.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040220062015.85721.qmail@web14907.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 10:10:25PM -0800, Jon Smirl wrote: > --- Mike Frysinger 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 ------------------------------------------------------- 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