From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262823AbVFVHwA (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 03:52:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262876AbVFVHrb (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 03:47:31 -0400 Received: from nproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.182.201]:1117 "EHLO nproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262819AbVFVGXn convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 02:23:43 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Tqlg30EMMZcI+ThPANatPPX/PAvFn6CB3SI/xhzEGpXiuoohH9SGSH+izYK5ysH/suDeZ/c8iIcqO4k7iUJAuMHeeicuisdjjJnIdHuj3nAH4LaZMfTmTbgXlA4Bu0c7NU2BgenRPTBMOhBT8bcDC6mUR6WE5OguPBoKNG0Vij0= Message-ID: <2cd57c900506212323ca68045@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 14:23:36 +0800 From: Coywolf Qi Hunt Reply-To: coywolf@lovecn.org To: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [PATCH] devfs: remove devfs from Kconfig preventing it from being built Cc: gregkh@suse.de, torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20050621.214527.71091057.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050621222419.GA23896@kroah.com> <20050621.155919.85409752.davem@davemloft.net> <20050622041330.GB27716@suse.de> <20050621.214527.71091057.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 6/22/05, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Greg KH > Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 21:13:30 -0700 > > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 03:59:19PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > > > From: Greg KH > > > Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:24:19 -0700 > > > > > > However, this does mean I do need to reinstall a couple > > > debian boxes here to something newer before I can continue > > > doing kernel work in 2.6.x on them. > > > > Those boxes rely on devfs? > > Yeah, when I forget to turn on DEVFS_FS and DEVFS_MOUNT in the > kernel config the machine won't boot. :-) > > > Can't you just grab the "static dev" debian package and continue on? > > I'm sure there is one in there somewhere (don't really know for sure, > > not running debian anywhere here, sorry.) > > > > Or how about a tarball of a /dev tree? Would that help you out? There's /sbin/MAKEDEV on debian. > > I don't know if Debian has such a package. > > Don't worry, I'll take care of this by simply reinstalling > and thus moving to udev. Moving to udev is right. Still you need a "static dev" in case your udev not working. Use /sbin/MAKEDEV from makedev package. -- Coywolf Qi Hunt http://ahbl.org/~coywolf/