Migrating from static /dev to udev

["Brendan Moran" <bremoran@broadcom.com>]

Hi,
I'm trying to migrate an armeb embedded Linux build from a static /dev 
to udev.  I now have the system coming up with udev enabled, but the 
first thing that udev does is disable my console connection.  Before the 
console starts endlessly spewing "file not found" messages, udev prints 
a line like this

    tty ttyAMA0: uevent: unsupported action-string; this will be ignored
    in a futur

for nearly every device that was in the previous static /dev.

I understand that I can add static rules to udev to fix this, but I also 
want to migrate naming conventions to standard names--ttyAMA0 should be 
ttyS0, etc.  I can keep legacy names around with symlinks if necessary.

So I'm not quite sure how to get started.  I have disabled udev's 
startup for the moment, so I can get into /sys.  Is there a guide 
somewhere on how to migrate from a static /dev to udev?

Thanks,
Brendan