From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262909AbTJGVi0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 17:38:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262910AbTJGVi0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 17:38:26 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([65.200.24.183]:29633 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262909AbTJGViZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 17:38:25 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 14:37:58 -0700 From: Greg KH To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: devfs and udev Message-ID: <20031007213758.GB3095@kroah.com> Reply-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 11:27:37PM +0200, Måns Rullgård wrote: > Greg KH writes: > > >> > > What am I supposed to do, starting to use mknod again? Uggggh... > >> > > >> > Provide me with a kernel name to devfs name mapping file so that I can > >> > create a "devfs like" udev config file for people who happen to like > >> > that naming scheme. > >> > >> It seems that we have a bit of misunderstanding here. > >> > >> I just don't want to go back to /dev being actually placed on > >> real, on-disk fs. > >> > >> I won't mind if naming scheme will change as long > >> as device names start with '/dev/' and appear > >> there (semi-)automagically. That's what I call devfs. > >> If udev can do this, I am all for that. > > > > udev can do this. Is there some documentation that you read that has > > suggested otherwise? > > It's been my understanding that udev creates device nodes in a regular > filesystem. If this is the case, things like unclean reboots will > leave stale files behind. It will also not be easy to > bootstrap. Correct me if am wrong. mount -t ramfs none /dev That is what udev will run off of :) Again, can you point me to any documentation that states that udev will do this on a persistant filesystem? thanks, greg k-h