From: Jon Portnoy <avenj@gentoo.org>
To: "C. Brewer" <cbrewer@stealthaccess.net>
Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] udev implementation
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 13:09:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031021170906.GA5621@cerberus.oppresses.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200310210814.37641.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net>
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 08:14:29AM -0700, C. Brewer wrote:
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> On Monday 20 October 2003 11:17, Jon Portnoy wrote:
> >
> > You can go without devfs easily.
> >
> > You do, however, need to boot with gentoo=nodevfs to tell the init
> > system you don't want devfs.
> >
> > The choice is there.
>
> Very true, however, doesn't that basically tell init just to not start the
> daemon? IIRC, the kernel can't be compiled without devfs support or /sbin/rc
> has a tiny fit...
Unless it's changed recently, gentoo=nodevfs prevents rc from having
that fit -- I haven't used a devfs-less system in a while, though.
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-21 5:56 [gentoo-dev] udev implementation C. Brewer
2003-10-21 6:17 ` Jon Portnoy
2003-10-21 15:14 ` C. Brewer
2003-10-21 17:09 ` Jon Portnoy [this message]
2003-10-21 7:43 ` Christian Birchinger
2003-10-21 7:49 ` Jon Portnoy
2003-10-21 8:01 ` Ernst Herzberg
2003-10-21 20:36 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-10-21 21:45 ` C. Brewer
2003-10-22 2:33 ` Mike Frysinger
2003-10-22 2:50 ` C. Brewer
2003-10-22 4:27 ` Martin Schlemmer
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