From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262902AbVFVIrG (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 04:47:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262914AbVFVInQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 04:43:16 -0400 Received: from smtp04.auna.com ([62.81.186.14]:751 "EHLO smtp04.retemail.es") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262845AbVFVIhs convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 04:37:48 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 08:37:46 +0000 From: "J.A. Magallon" Subject: Re: [PATCH] devfs: remove devfs from Kconfig preventing it from being built To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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> In-Reply-To: <2cd57c900506212323ca68045@mail.gmail.com> (from coywolf@gmail.com on Wed Jun 22 08:23:36 2005) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.3.3 Message-Id: <1119429466l.8047l.1l@werewolf.able.es> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Auth-Info: Auth:LOGIN IP:[83.138.212.68] Login:jamagallon@able.es Fecha:Wed, 22 Jun 2005 10:37:46 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. ;) -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: werewolf!able!es \ It's better when it's free Mandriva Linux release 2006.0 (Cooker) for i586 Linux 2.6.12-jam1 (gcc 4.0.1 (4.0.1-0.2mdk for Mandriva Linux release 2006.0))