From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262902AbTJGWMs (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 18:12:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262907AbTJGWMs (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 18:12:48 -0400 Received: from 64.221.211.208.ptr.us.xo.net ([64.221.211.208]:62851 "HELO mail.keyresearch.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262902AbTJGWMr (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 18:12:47 -0400 Subject: Re: devfs and udev From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <20031007131719.27061.qmail@web40910.mail.yahoo.com> <200310072128.09666.insecure@mail.od.ua> <20031007194124.GA2670@kroah.com> <200310072347.41749.insecure@mail.od.ua> <20031007205244.GA2978@kroah.com> <20031007213758.GB3095@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Message-Id: <1065564766.1238.144.camel@serpentine.internal.keyresearch.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 15:12:46 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 15:01, Måns Rullgård wrote: > There will still have to be some static device files to get the system > booted, right? init usually is rather unhappy if it can't find > /dev/console. There are the necessary few in initramfs already. > Can you point me to any documentation at all? Really, I don't know why Greg is bothering to answer your questions. This stuff is all readily accessible via (a) getting off your nethers and doing a Google search for "linux udev" and (b) reading what you find. It's trivial to find, and it's utterly obvious how it works. Sheesh.