From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LTOZk-0004gH-Qm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:44:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 867CDE0324; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:44:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.251]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 369D7E0324 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:44:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so1066602rvf.46 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:44:29 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=n5+KLd+vZdsDVLX8He4fKsUjjN0RQToSyrNfs7StGZM=; b=oJDlsrseJa3uZlxRYxEEcdtXLK/C5w82NnPB5RcbxgMSqqHSQZETjm6Imh7hKbFL5y qIHJM7z8OVUNFw4d95YRZOGOWpmG8zXVd2o0jWzXzNAwSjoYS05lm65GqfliGcHzBSGC ltido0z+QZzUM0K2A0ZKsWVNz348TCzY2YhNc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Y8qIvliOiUVxxE33FgFw7fClMHiYH3qOpV+4Y1t5zVSEi/zICfkwAe3RRaP24PhAcR bR07fybsnOhgBPcqT3GJ9KRER1UE2ESPZTDJgGaRGfPGEQRFGFJwJA+nhHHQJkOXXnv3 6m5vjHpwF6wOndHWB0ZA3ccRWVBmPHV2vgMkA= Received: by 10.142.225.11 with SMTP id x11mr892132wfg.322.1233441869552; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:44:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?4.231.2.26? (dialup-4.231.2.26.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.231.2.26]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 28sm3396361wfg.28.2009.01.31.14.44.20 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:44:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4984D42E.5090306@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:43:58 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081227 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/rtc => rtc0 References: <5bdc1c8b0901311426t39d7d4bew31ec96c258c2a952@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0901311426t39d7d4bew31ec96c258c2a952@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c6d57533-6c97-4cef-b9f3-1ea89b40c3f9 X-Archives-Hash: 4944efb3ae37f66d972079b1dee96504 Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > I know nothing of this part of the Linux boot process. If it's > *fairly* simple can someone point me at the right stuff to understand > how Gentoo creates a link from /dev/rtc to rtc0? When in the boot > process does this link become valid? > > Is it something that's held in a file and recreated from that file > on each boot? Is it created automagically by Gentoo Angels that look > after my well being but seldom reveal themselves? Is it created by the > kernel itself when something is specifically configured to do so? > Something else? > > Thanks, > Mark > > lightning src # uname -a > Linux lightning 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 #6 Fri Jan 30 18:55:56 PST 2009 > x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux > lightning src # ls -al /dev/rtc* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2009-01-30 10:58 /dev/rtc -> rtc0 > crw-r--r-- 1 root root 254, 0 2009-01-30 10:58 /dev/rtc0 > lightning src # > > > >From my understanding udev creates all the "stuff" in /dev. You can change the rules that it uses to make them tho. I think there is documentation on gentoo.org to help with that. So far, mine has worked well enough. Lucky I guess. That help? Dale :-) :-)