From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265913AbUACGF6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2004 01:05:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265917AbUACGF5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2004 01:05:57 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([65.200.24.183]:58307 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265913AbUACGF4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2004 01:05:56 -0500 Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 22:04:39 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Hollis Blanchard Cc: Tommi Virtanen , Rob Love , Nathan Conrad , Pascal Schmidt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: udev and devfs - The final word Message-ID: <20040103060439.GE5306@kroah.com> References: <3FF34522.8060106@tv.debian.net> <15B77182-3CB9-11D8-A498-000A95A0560C@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15B77182-3CB9-11D8-A498-000A95A0560C@us.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 06:17:43PM -0600, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > On Wednesday, Dec 31, 2003, at 15:52 US/Central, Tommi Virtanen wrote: > >I think devfs names are accepted as root= arguments, so that's a bit of > >a loss.. with udev, your /dev and your root= are equal only if you > >follow the standard naming. > > > >For root=, I can see how early userspace can move that to userspace. > >But what about swsuspend? > > > >Are there any more kernel options taking file names? I think now would > >be a good time to stop adding more of them :) > > "console=" takes driver-supplied names which usually happen to match > /dev node names. For example, drivers/serial/8250.c names itself > "ttyS", so "console=ttyS0" will end up going to that driver, regardless > of the state of /dev. These are just string matches that the different console drivers use. They have nothing to do with an actual /dev node. thanks, greg k-h