From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261273AbVF1WMv (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jun 2005 18:12:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261523AbVF1WKc (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jun 2005 18:10:32 -0400 Received: from hobbit.corpit.ru ([81.13.94.6]:38222 "EHLO hobbit.corpit.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261491AbVF1WIs (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jun 2005 18:08:48 -0400 Message-ID: <42C1CA69.7060901@tls.msk.ru> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 02:08:41 +0400 From: Michael Tokarev Organization: Telecom Service, JSC User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050331) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Rini CC: Olaf Hering , Greg KH , Kyle Moffett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] ndevfs - a "nano" devfs References: <20050624081808.GA26174@kroah.com> <9EE4350F-5791-4787-950B-14E5C2B9ADB8@mac.com> <20050628074145.GC3577@kroah.com> <20050628195633.GA26131@smtp.west.cox.net> <20050628210804.GA26713@suse.de> <20050628212518.GA26772@smtp.west.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20050628212518.GA26772@smtp.west.cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Tom Rini wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 11:08:04PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: [] >>>Er, don't you need /dev/console for console output to happen? (And that >>>it's a good idea to have /dev/null around too). Or has that changed? >> >>scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh creates that for every kernel. > > I get "Warning: unable to open initial console", so on post 2.6.12 (but > now stale) git. Does userspace need to be doing something as well? Are you using initramfs (cpio archive of the root fs)? Or "ol'good" initrd (cramfs, romfs, whatever)? /mjt