Re: udev on real Linux from scratch

[Alex Smith <alex@alex-smith.me.uk>]

Gabor Z. Papp wrote:
> * Alex Smith <alex@alex-smith.me.uk>:
> 
> | IMO it would be wiser to use udevtrigger and udevsettle here rather
> | than udevstart because AFAIK udevstart is deprecated and will be
> | removed soon.
> 
> Thanks, replaced, works fine, except I'm getting 2 errors that was
> hidden before the change. udevd complaining about these lines stolen
> from slackware config:
> 
> ACTION="add", DEVPATH="/devices/*", ENV{PHYSDEVBUS}="?*", WAIT_FOR_SYSFS="bus"
> 
> # permissions for IDE CD devices (without symbolic link creation)
> BUS="ide", KERNEL="*[!0-9]", ENV{PHYSDEVDRIVER}="ide-cdrom", NAME="%k", GROUP="disk", MODE="0660"
> 
> # permissions for IDE floppy devices
> BUS="ide", KERNEL="*[!0-9]", ENV{PHYSDEVDRIVER}="ide-floppy*", NAME="%k", GROUP="disk", MODE="0660"
> 
> Saying something like PHYSDEV* deprecated and will be removed?

Yes, you'll need to replace these sometime. I'm not sure what you should 
replace them with though.

> 
> | that udevd needs and does not create. This is what I do on
> | Frugalware:
> 
> [...]
> 
> Thank you Alex.
> 
> Two questions left, mounting tmpfs on /dev is ok, or should I use ramdisk?
> No need to set (limit) the size of /dev?

mount -n -t ramfs none /dev

I use ramfs ^^

> 
> Another error I'm getting from udevd:
> 
> "the kernel does not support inotify, udevd can't monitor configuration file changes"

Just rebuild your kernel with inotify support - it's under the File 
systems menu in menuconfig IIRC.

-- 
Alex Smith
Frugalware Linux developer - http://www.frugalware.org

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