From: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: devfs
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 21:06:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020818210618.A1806@zalem.puupuu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0208181852450.3920-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>; from viro@math.psu.edu on Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 07:03:42PM -0400
On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 07:03:42PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> devfs "mount" option is an idiotic kludge that makes _kernel_ mount
> it on /dev after the root fs had been mounted. Why it had been
> introduced is a great mistery, since the normal way is to have a
> corresponding line in /etc/fstab and have userland mount whatever
> it needs.
I've been wondering, imagine that in the future we have a working
dynamic device filesystem (be it devfs, driverfs, whatever) nice
enough that we don't want a disk-based /dev anymore. How are we
supposed to mount it so that the kernel's open("/dev/console")
succeeds?
OG.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-19 1:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-18 6:44 cerberus errors on 2.4.19 (ide dma related) Ed Sweetman
2002-08-18 7:15 ` Ed Sweetman
2002-08-18 9:19 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-08-18 18:11 ` Ed Sweetman
2002-08-18 18:31 ` Ed Sweetman
2002-08-18 7:26 ` Ed Sweetman
2002-08-18 9:00 ` Barry K. Nathan
2002-08-18 9:13 ` Ed Sweetman
2002-08-18 17:50 ` Jonathan Lundell
2002-08-18 18:04 ` Ed Sweetman
2002-08-18 9:10 ` Alexander Viro
2002-08-18 9:16 ` Ed Sweetman
2002-08-18 18:10 ` Ed Sweetman
2002-08-18 18:20 ` Sean Neakums
2002-08-18 18:29 ` Ed Sweetman
2002-08-18 18:36 ` Sean Neakums
2002-08-18 21:53 ` Barry K. Nathan
2002-08-18 22:26 ` devfs Ed Sweetman
2002-08-18 22:47 ` devfs Sean Neakums
2002-08-18 23:03 ` devfs Alexander Viro
2002-08-18 23:15 ` devfs Ed Sweetman
2002-08-21 4:49 ` devfs Richard Gooch
2002-08-21 5:03 ` devfs Ed Sweetman
2002-08-19 1:06 ` Olivier Galibert [this message]
2002-08-19 2:01 ` devfs Greg KH
2002-08-18 23:18 ` devfs Barry K. Nathan
2002-08-18 22:41 ` cerberus errors on 2.4.19 (ide dma related) Andrew Rodland
2002-08-18 22:55 ` Ed Sweetman
2002-08-19 21:46 ` Ed Sweetman
2002-08-18 19:53 ` Ed Sweetman
2002-08-18 20:07 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-08-18 20:29 ` Ed Sweetman
2002-08-23 0:03 ` Samuel Flory
2002-08-19 0:06 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-11-12 9:32 devfs Ian Molton
2002-11-12 9:43 ` devfs Xavier Bestel
2002-11-12 9:49 ` devfs john slee
2002-11-12 10:01 ` devfs Sean Neakums
2002-11-12 12:51 ` devfs Oliver Neukum
2002-11-12 10:05 ` devfs Xavier Bestel
2002-11-12 10:04 ` devfs Alexander Viro
2002-11-12 10:25 ` devfs Ian Molton
2002-11-12 10:46 ` devfs Dave Jones
2002-11-12 11:08 ` devfs Ian Molton
2002-11-12 11:24 ` devfs Rando Christensen
2002-11-12 13:30 ` devfs Alexander Viro
2002-11-12 14:53 ` devfs Alan Cox
2002-11-12 15:37 ` devfs Ian Molton
2002-11-12 11:29 ` devfs Helge Hafting
2002-11-12 15:40 ` devfs Greg KH
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