From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754329AbZEAHH6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 May 2009 03:07:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752621AbZEAHHu (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 May 2009 03:07:50 -0400 Received: from parsec.stupidest.org ([71.6.196.126]:46545 "EHLO parsec.stupidest.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752491AbZEAHHu (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 May 2009 03:07:50 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 594 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 01 May 2009 03:07:50 EDT Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:57:54 -0700 From: Chris Wedgwood To: Kay Sievers Cc: linux-kernel , Greg KH , Jan Blunck Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver-core: devtmpfs - driver core maintained /dev tmpfs Message-ID: <20090501065754.GA30626@puku.stupidest.org> References: <1241097822.2516.3.camel@poy> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1241097822.2516.3.camel@poy> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 03:23:42PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > Devtmpfs lets the kernel create a tmpfs very early at kernel > initialization, before any driver core device is registered. Every > device with a major/minor will have a device node created in this > tmpfs instance. After the rootfs is mounted by the kernel, the > populated tmpfs is mounted at /dev. In initramfs, it can be moved to > the manually mounted root filesystem before /sbin/init is executed. Why can't the initramfs create /dev and populate it?