From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262924AbVFVJbe (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 05:31:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262904AbVFVJ17 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 05:27:59 -0400 Received: from nproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.182.201]:40692 "EHLO nproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262924AbVFVJYC convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 05:24:02 -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=mykAJ5VcWsA6j+Py/KJNYcYmHMbPsadQjFPbJdYrQYEhGLgoAnI/smccSOmzAf8UNrvR7fzuHBXGG/2qrfXGW6RnIsjDBueTYj5VH130/fNQWyzz2Gg/KTLBHXbhTs/HoeAX5mCU1PCJuroH7YvIJbvRvSM3srHK2hEATU1D6V8= Message-ID: <2cd57c9005062202237cd4ece9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 17:23:58 +0800 From: Coywolf Qi Hunt Reply-To: coywolf@lovecn.org To: "J.A. Magallon" Subject: Re: [PATCH] devfs: remove devfs from Kconfig preventing it from being built Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1119429466l.8047l.1l@werewolf.able.es> 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> <2cd57c900506212323ca68045@mail.gmail.com> <1119429466l.8047l.1l@werewolf.able.es> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 6/22/05, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > On 06.22, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote: > > 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. > > > > 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. -- Coywolf Qi Hunt http://ahbl.org/~coywolf/