From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752580AbZHMIZt (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:25:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751512AbZHMIZt (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:25:49 -0400 Received: from smtp2a.orange.fr ([80.12.242.139]:14094 "EHLO smtp2a.orange.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751360AbZHMIZs (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:25:48 -0400 X-ME-UUID: 20090813082547818.C7B2A70000AB@mwinf2a11.orange.fr Subject: Re: [PATCH] Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /dev From: Xavier Bestel To: Robert Schwebel Cc: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kay Sievers , Jan Blunck , gregkh@suse.de, Harald Hoyer , Scott James Remnant In-Reply-To: <20090812213348.GY13320@pengutronix.de> References: <20090805171513.GA10443@kroah.com> <20090812213348.GY13320@pengutronix.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:25:40 +0200 Message-Id: <1250151940.18980.424.camel@skunk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 (2.12.3-8.el5_2.3) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 23:33 +0200, Robert Schwebel wrote: > On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:15:13AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > Here's the devtmpfs patch again. > > As an embedded distro maintainer, I'd really like such an approach. With > ptxdist, we can today build the complete rootfs for an embedded system > without root permissions - just if we want to nfs-root boot the boards > during development, it doesn't work, because you have to create > /dev/console, /dev/null and /dev/zero and that works only for root. Have you tried genext2fs ? It lets you create a filesystem image complete with device nodes as a normal user. Xav