Re: [PATCH] devfs: remove devfs from Kconfig preventing it from being built

[Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@gmail.com>]

On 6/22/05, J.A. Magallon <jamagallon@able.es> wrote:
> 
> On 06.22, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote:
> > On 6/22/05, David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> > > From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
> > > 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 <gregkh@suse.de>
> > > > > 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.
> >
> 
> A nice addition to udev package would be an standard minimal /dev tree
> to allow booting till init and running udev as the first thing...
> A tar.gz you could just unpack on a new box or on an initrd.
> 
> ;)


I guess we've already got one in initramfs.
The "static" /dev is still necessary. I once killed my udevd, and the
static /dev revealed.

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