From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751197AbWGUV1c (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:27:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751209AbWGUV1b (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:27:31 -0400 Received: from compunauta.com ([69.36.170.169]:19144 "EHLO compunauta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751197AbWGUV1b convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:27:31 -0400 From: Gustavo Guillermo =?iso-8859-1?q?P=E9rez?= Organization: www.compunauta.com To: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [OT] devfs is obsolete, but dbus/hald/ivman does not spend more resources at boot time? Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:38:31 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <200607181211.32092.gustavo@compunauta.com> <20060718175959.GA9311@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20060718175959.GA9311@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607210038.31902.gustavo@compunauta.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org El Martes, 18 de Julio de 2006 12:59, escribió: > On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:11:31PM -0500, Gustavo Guillermo P?rez wrote: > > I was used to mount devfs in a separate folder, to search for a ZISO file > > on hard drives or DVD/CD units in my boot ram rescue disks, and Gentoo > > live DVD, in last kernel versions devfs still there but not anymore in > > config, we still able to use it, touching some files. > > > > Just to know ?How many releases will still there? > > devfs has been fully removed from the kernel for 2.6.18, but had been > disabled and really not working at all since 2.6.13, which has been for > a year now. True, but for hard drives and CD units works fine > > How do you a search for drives with hald/dbus at boot time on a ramdisk > > it is not more complex?!?!?!. > > What exactly are you trying to do? Look at /sys/block/ for all block > devices in the system. Yes there are the block devices and partitions but I'm not sure if removable=1 means CDROM... > If you want to do it in a more portable and cross-OS way, use HAL, and ask > those developers on how to do it. I guess, ok, I'll give a try to hal, and I see I can use too the /sys/block/*/dev info to make nodes, and would be the same, cause is just for probing media and looking for a big file with the system, when the system is found, dbus/hal/ivman take scene. > thanks, Thanks to you. > greg k-h -- Gustavo Guillermo Pérez Compunauta uLinux www.compunauta.com