From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:41:22 +0000
Subject: Re: Migrating from static /dev to udev
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On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 01:06:27AM +0200, Stephan Raue wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when you only need a automatically managed /dev (and not need udev) you can 
> try the first snapshots of the new 2.6.32 kernel with enabled devtmpfs. i 
> have tryed this yesterday (linux-2.6.31 +patch 
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/next/patch-v2.6.31-next-20090925.bz2) 
> and its works very good for me. you can mount /dev with "mount -t devtmpfs 
> none /dev" and you have a complete /dev managed by kernel (when you need 
> udev and it works, udev is very fast with this).

Or you can have the kernel mount it for you if you want to based on the
config option, making your userspace even simpler.

thanks,

greg k-h