From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 12:54:41 +0000 Subject: Re: udev-076 and /lib/udev/devices Message-Id: <20051130125441.GA1011@vrfy.org> List-Id: References: <438D9E40.8060505@linuxfromscratch.org> In-Reply-To: <438D9E40.8060505@linuxfromscratch.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 12:42:40PM +0000, Matthew Burgess wrote: > Hi, > > In the RELEASE-NOTES for udev-076, it states: > > "Also /lib/udev/devices is recommended as a directory where packages or > the user can place real device nodes, which get copied over to /dev at > every boot." > > This suggests that udev does this copying itself. However, in README it > states: > > "The content of /lib/udev/devices directory should be copied over to the > tmpfs mounted /dev, to provide the required nodes to initialize udev." > > This suggests that it is the job of a bootscript to copy the devices > across, and a quick test/grep of the source suggests that, indeed, udev > won't do any such copying itself. > > Could someone confirm this for me please? The boot script is expected to mount tmpfs on /dev, copy the initial and static nodes from /lib/udev/devices and then start udevd. Kay ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&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