On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:14:31PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:46:38AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > Furthermore. If devfs is not mounted, devfs should have no influence > > whatsoever on the running kernel, right ? > > Unfortunately devfs is a broken POS, so in 2.4 it has quite a lot.. > > > The problem is that i am running the powerpc kernel without any devfs > > option, and not built with devfs-automount, but altough the df output > > seems ok, /proc/partitions seems to show the devfs volumes. > > Yes, that's a known bug in 2.4 kernels, and is fixed in Linux 2.6.
Mmm, could the fix be backported, i will have to look into this. I had a patch for this back in the time when doing boot-floppies work with a devfs enabled 2.4 kernel, but i fear it will break when mounted with devfs=mount by d-i. > > Is this the correct and expected behavior ? What do other people > > (popwerpc users or not) see here ? And can this be safely ignored, or > > will it cause problems later with non devfs mounted kernels ? > > It's not correct, but expected. Better don't use devfs. (Yeah, I know > the d-i folks don't get it, but fortunately I hope I won't ever have to > reinstall Debian on this box :)) It is only used for the install, hopefully sarge+1 d-i will not need it. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
