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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 21:45:27 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] devfs: remove devfs from Kconfig preventing it from
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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
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 <gregkh@suse.de>
> > 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?

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.