From: Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>
To: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] ndevfs - a "nano" devfs
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 10:37:08 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200506251037.08506.vda@ilport.com.ua> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9EE4350F-5791-4787-950B-14E5C2B9ADB8@mac.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-25 7:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-24 8:18 [ANNOUNCE] ndevfs - a "nano" devfs Greg KH
2005-06-24 12:23 ` Michael Tokarev
2005-06-24 15:16 ` Greg KH
2005-06-24 15:40 ` Michael Tokarev
2005-06-24 16:26 ` Greg KH
2005-06-24 14:32 ` Bill Gatliff
2005-06-24 15:17 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-06-24 15:20 ` Greg KH
2005-06-24 17:10 ` Michael Tokarev
2005-06-24 17:10 ` Bill Gatliff
2005-06-28 7:40 ` Greg KH
2005-06-24 19:05 ` Mike Bell
2005-06-24 21:55 ` J.A. Magallon
2005-06-24 19:22 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2005-06-25 0:57 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-06-25 7:37 ` Denis Vlasenko [this message]
2005-06-28 7:41 ` Greg KH
2005-06-28 19:56 ` Tom Rini
2005-06-28 21:08 ` Olaf Hering
2005-06-28 21:25 ` Tom Rini
2005-06-28 22:08 ` Michael Tokarev
2005-06-28 22:23 ` Tom Rini
2005-06-25 22:15 ` Matt Mackall
2005-06-25 23:43 ` Greg KH
2005-06-26 8:23 ` Russell King
2005-06-28 3:36 ` Greg KH
2005-06-27 7:19 ` Mike Bell
2005-06-27 22:35 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-06-27 23:26 ` Mike Bell
2005-06-28 7:40 ` Greg KH
2005-06-28 9:08 ` Mike Bell
2005-06-28 9:21 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-06-28 9:40 ` Mike Bell
2005-06-28 21:49 ` Jim Crilly
2005-06-28 22:23 ` Mike Bell
2005-06-28 23:43 ` Jim Crilly
2005-06-29 0:12 ` Mike Bell
2005-06-29 0:39 ` David Lang
2005-06-29 0:53 ` Mike Bell
2005-06-28 12:00 ` Oliver Neukum
2005-06-28 20:08 ` Greg KH
2005-06-29 6:41 ` Oliver Neukum
2005-06-29 16:06 ` Greg KH
2005-06-29 16:22 ` Oliver Neukum
[not found] ` <200506270819.20108.arnd@arndb.de>
2005-06-28 3:46 ` Greg KH
[not found] <OF831AC472.851744FE-ON8025702A.004A57EC-8025702A.004B5AE9@sophos.com>
2005-06-24 15:23 ` Greg KH
2005-06-24 15:32 tvrtko.ursulin
2005-06-24 16:27 ` Greg KH
2005-06-27 15:17 Adam J. Richter
2005-06-27 15:21 Adam J. Richter
2005-06-27 23:27 ` J.A. Magallon
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