From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263363AbVFYHhg (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Jun 2005 03:37:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263364AbVFYHhg (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Jun 2005 03:37:36 -0400 Received: from 167.imtp.Ilyichevsk.Odessa.UA ([195.66.192.167]:13001 "HELO port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263363AbVFYHha (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Jun 2005 03:37:30 -0400 From: Denis Vlasenko To: Kyle Moffett , Greg KH Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] ndevfs - a "nano" devfs Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 10:37:08 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050624081808.GA26174@kroah.com> <9EE4350F-5791-4787-950B-14E5C2B9ADB8@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <9EE4350F-5791-4787-950B-14E5C2B9ADB8@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200506251037.08506.vda@ilport.com.ua> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 25 June 2005 03:57, Kyle Moffett wrote: > One of the things that most annoys me about udev is that I still need > a minimal static dev in order for the system to boot. Could something > like this be used as follows? > > 1) Boot kernel with an arg "automount_ndevfs", which automounts on /dev > > 2) Init scripts use console, ttyX, hda, sda, etc from ndevfs Even more magic piled up in kernel? Please no. I've moved to initrd-basid start, thus I don't need anything on /dev. My initrd mounts ramfs on /dev and populates it with bare minimum, then udev kicks in. With dietlibc/uclibc/busybox, initrd can get ridiculously small :) -- vda