From: Dag Nygren <dag@newtech.fi>
To: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
Cc: Dag Nygren <dag@newtech.fi>,
Ruth Ivimey-Cook <Ruth.Ivimey-Cook@ivimey.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dag@newtech.fi
Subject: Re: Devfs strangeness in 2.4.18
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 10:43:29 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020610074329.24411.qmail@dag.newtech.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca> of "Fri, 07 Jun 2002 10:34:50 MDT." <200206071634.g57GYoi14530@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca>
> Dag Nygren writes:
> > > Also check that you don't have bogus entries in your dev-state
> > > area. Mandrake had some configuration problems a few months back.
> >
> > Yess!!!
> > That's what did it, removing the sg? and st? entries from /lib/dev-state
> > did the trick. There were some oldies ghosting there. Thanks a lot
> > Richard, I didn't even know that there was a dev-state directory to
> > look for ;-).
>
> I've added an item to the FAQ about this.
A very good idea.
> > Is there any comprehensive documentation on devfsd and devfs
> > anywhere on the net? Could be good to read a bit more about this.
>
> Have you not looked at the FAQ?
Yes, but looking for sg and st stuff I didn't looh that carefully.
What I was missing at that time was a walkthrough of the
devfs and devfsd default operations.
Anyway it work beatifully now.
Thanks again
Dag
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-10 7:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-06 20:57 Dag Nygren
2002-06-06 22:14 ` Ruth Ivimey-Cook
2002-06-06 23:04 ` Richard Gooch
2002-06-07 7:46 ` Dag Nygren
2002-06-07 16:34 ` Richard Gooch
2002-06-10 7:43 ` Dag Nygren [this message]
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