Re: [gentoo-dev] devfs is dead, let's move on

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Monday 11 July 2005 03:47 am, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 20:34 +0200, Richard Fish wrote:
> > >>>I.o.w. is it still necessary to have RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" as a
> > >>>default or can we move to a pure udev system and change the default to
> > >>>"no".
> > >>
> > >>I've been running my boxes successfully with "no" since the option
> > >>showed up just fine :)
> > >
> > >I think people is under a misconception about this option and ... you
> > >really only need to enable this for a driver that is not sysfs aware
> > >(nvidia comes to mind - any others?), or if you have some custom nodes
> > >in /dev that you cannot do via udev ...  And I am pretty sure (correct
> > >me if I am wrong) that all (or most?) in-kernel drivers are sysfs aware,
> > >and only a handful outside are not.
> >
> > Well, I do have a small issue with the software RAID (md) driver, in
> > that when autodetection is not performed by the driver (due to either
> > being a module or booting the system through an initramfs), no sysfs
> > entries or device nodes are created.
> >
> > Normally my RAID system is brought up inside my initramfs with static
> > nodes, so this really only affects my recovery CD, where I need to run:
> >
> >     for d in 0 1 2 3; do
> >         /sbin/mdadm --assemble --config=partitions --auto=md
> > --super-minor=$d /dev/md$d >/dev/null 2>&1
> >     done
> >
> > Maybe something similar will be required in /sbin/rc, like you currently
> > do for LVM and the device mapper?  It isn't a critical problem
> > though...I am pretty sure there are only a few Gentoo users who will
> > ever see this...maybe as few as 1!!!
>
> Mike, what do you think?  This viable?  We could maybe add an init addon
> for md, and move the lvm/whatever stuff to that as well?

i dont see the point ... ive already fixed raidtools / mdadm to generate 
device nodes before running since udev doesnt do it correctly/at all
-mike
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