From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephan Raue Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:06:27 +0000 Subject: Re: Migrating from static /dev to udev Message-Id: <4ABD4CF3.6020207@openelec.tv> List-Id: References: <4ABD467F.7010901@broadcom.com> In-Reply-To: <4ABD467F.7010901@broadcom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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). Stephan Am 26.09.2009 00:38, schrieb Brendan Moran: > 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 > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-hotplug" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- ### OpenELEC.tv ### The free and open Mediacenter Distribution 4 you http://www.openelec.tv