From: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@pld-linux.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udev: what's up with old /dev ?
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 12:29:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200410111229.02054.arekm@pld-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <047CCB21-1B66-11D9-96AD-000D9352858E@linuxmail.org>
On Monday 11 of October 2004 11:14, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> On Oct 11, 2004, at 01:15, Hacksaw wrote:
> >> The very first thing init does is open /dev/console, and if it doesn't
> >> exist the entire boot hangs.
> >
> > This raises a question: Would it be a useful thing to make a modified
> > init
> > that could run udev before it does anything else?
>
> FC3t2 boots from an "initrd" image that, among other things, mounts a
> tmpfs over "/dev" and creates "console", "null", "pts" and then
> proceeds to load "init".
... and it ignores root= kernel cmdline option. rootfs is hardcoded in initrd
which is very ugly.
Creating /dev entries on rootfs from initrd without hardcoding rootfs device
is quite problematic.
--
Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz PLD/Linux Team
http://www.t17.ds.pwr.wroc.pl/~misiek/ http://ftp.pld-linux.org/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-11 10:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-10 22:08 udev: what's up with old /dev ? J.A. Magallon
2004-10-10 22:51 ` Zack Weinberg
2004-10-10 23:15 ` Hacksaw
2004-10-10 23:25 ` J.A. Magallon
2004-10-11 0:06 ` Hacksaw
2004-10-11 19:13 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-11 9:14 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2004-10-11 10:29 ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz [this message]
2004-10-11 12:02 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2004-10-11 11:11 ` Hacksaw
2004-10-11 12:04 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2004-10-11 20:06 ` Hacksaw
2004-10-11 20:51 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-11 21:28 ` Hacksaw
2004-10-12 0:19 ` Greg KH
2004-10-12 8:11 ` Harald Dunkel
2004-10-12 16:58 ` Greg KH
[not found] ` <416C26B4.6040408@t-online.de>
[not found] ` <20041012185733.GA31222@kroah.com>
[not found] ` <416C3BB6.4040200@t-online.de>
[not found] ` <20041012203022.GB32139@kroah.com>
2004-10-12 21:35 ` Harald Dunkel
2004-10-13 13:08 ` Mathieu Segaud
2004-10-13 14:13 ` Harald Dunkel
2004-10-13 14:33 ` Mathieu Segaud
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2004-10-10 22:41 Michael Thonke
2004-10-11 7:19 Zack Weinberg
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