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 1LTOI2-0002bH-TF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:26:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EB1D1E03BD; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:26:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.171]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDAC3E03BD for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:26:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 29so981480wff.10 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:26:13 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=lhun4S1I9W5GpnRf0YY6h8hefOQnAmV+E4qlz9YXJk0=; b=fYN8dXXFt1PS8h8UDCgNQll7ytL+deGK/W0+FZ5HIoPhw0H1teH4Ws/HCTkefX8Ihv 4QUO+lD5dIR0cTqO9MCo2TOKGzN3n8JxM5puec6UoDptTMzxo1b0rhMBB7TpE/a8x7Sm 3UqcNYC2TEzJ5Eb3unyfBQ901ZE6llAjBIHoQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=Ae6UCi6qJfYMFLkGsDBmmI1VugUbpB+jRmu9UOcnUhY+OrG2vSqC8CnT9OdQsjcORQ 1OeKHU04zoRVClmj+O+6jTDcML4fo7Zcmzm3tVXh+txF4Ab/WmvbnAFdZVNpV/SAyZc9 /+1kWubYgOQ2oLJMIreA0WuHbGs5cZZwxMlG8= 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 Received: by 10.142.58.20 with SMTP id g20mr1119789wfa.191.1233440773223; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:26:13 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:26:13 -0800 Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0901311426t39d7d4bew31ec96c258c2a952@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [gentoo-user] /dev/rtc => rtc0 From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5da5d527-4433-4afd-8665-c0df7df39cd9 X-Archives-Hash: 6ba2f52bfa4262a0537c42d83599b122 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 #