From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 12:58:41 +0000 Subject: Re: udev vs. devfs Message-Id: <20050617125841.GA23651@vrfy.org> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 02:42:24PM +0200, Pelle Svensson wrote: > First of all, It works now! > > What I missed was that sysfs has to be mounted. > There where some minor errors in rc.sysinit, start_udev and fstab. > > I think it should say somthing about what has to be in place in the > HOWTO-udev_for_dev > to get udev up and running. > > Something like: > > ---- > > 1. Kernel has to be compiled with sysfs > 2. edit /etc/fstab and add a line for sysfs > > none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 > > 3. edit rc.sysinit and add > > mount /sys > >---- You should have looked in the README: - Make sure sysfs is mounted. udev will figure out where sysfs is mounted, but the traditional place for it is at /sys. You can mount it by hand by running: mount -t sysfs none /sys Kay ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77&alloc_id492&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