From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262802AbVFVHv7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 03:51:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262823AbVFVHsu (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 03:48:50 -0400 Received: from dvhart.com ([64.146.134.43]:43185 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262843AbVFVGkB (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 02:40:01 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 23:40:06 -0700 From: "Martin J. Bligh" Reply-To: "Martin J. Bligh" To: "David S. Miller" , gregkh@suse.de Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] devfs: remove devfs from Kconfig preventing it from being built Message-ID: <258190000.1119422406@[10.10.2.4]> In-Reply-To: <20050621.214527.71091057.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20050621222419.GA23896@kroah.com><20050621.155919.85409752.davem@davemloft.net><20050622041330.GB27716@suse.de> <20050621.214527.71091057.davem@davemloft.net> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.2.1 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >> > 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. ??? I use debian sarge all the time with kernel.org kernels that don't have devfs compiled in, and I don't use udev either. Works across ia32, x86_64, and PPC64 (32 bit userspace) at least, with no trouble at all, out of the box. I did the same with Woody as well before that ... M.