Re: new version of udev has different cd/dvd devices

[Phil Howard <phil-linux-hotplug-devel@ipal.net>]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 05:57:23PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:

| On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 09:18:40AM -0600, Phil Howard wrote:
| > On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 02:36:29PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:

[...]

| > The first need for /dev will be long before the system could
| > run a shell.
| 
| That's just plain wrong.

My first need for it sure is.  It's in an early user space init program.
Some prototype code I have worked on just a bunch of mknod(2) calls for
now to set up a few devices I know my machines have.  The next step in
this project is to get away from statically coded devices and utilize
what is in sysfs to build /dev.  From there, it will then have devices
it can mount filesystems with.

My project isn't really about hotplugging anything.  Once the full system
is up and running, then the init scripts can start up whatever deamon is
needed, etc.  But I need to get at least some devices made in /dev so they
can be used, such as /dev/console and any block device that could have a
filesystem.  Other devices may be able to be deferred until later.

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