On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 07:12:43PM +0000, Pigeon wrote: | On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 12:48:43PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 10:18:59PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: | > | "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | | > | > The thing with udev is it is all userspace, therefore it works with | > | > any 2.6 kernel (that has SYSFS in it). You can upgrade udev without | > | > touching your kernel, unlike devfs. I've been using udev for a few | > | > weeks now (since 0.18 arrived in "experimental") and I haven't had | > | > any major problems (only a hurdle or two). | > | | > | OK. So how does it work? You've got my interest piqued. Does it | > | work kinda like devfs, or does it maintain the devices nodes on disk? | > | > Have you booted with a 2.6 kernel yet? If so, take a look in /sys. | | Is this automatic with Debian kernel packages? With a DIY 2.6 I had to | create /sys and mount it by hand (the /etc/fstab entry is as for /proc | but s/proc/sys/g).
$ dlocate /etc/init.d/mountkernfs
libc6: /etc/init.d/mountkernfs
$ dpkg -l libc6
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
--- excerpt from /etc/init.d/mountkernfs
### sysfs mount
#
# sysfs is introduced in the middle of kernel 2.5.
# The current practice is that /sys is used for mounting sysfs.
#
sysfs_avail=`grep -ci '[<[:space:]]sysfs' /proc/filesystems || true`
sysfs_mounted=`grep -ci '[<[:space:]]/sys' /proc/mounts || true`
if [ "$sysfs_avail" != 0 ] && [ "$sysfs_mounted" = 0 ]
then
mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys
fi
---
Hmm, maybe I had to create /sys first. At any rate I had created /sys
in anticipation of udev before udev was available in a package. I
have no entry in /etc/fstab for /sys, and I think I could remove the
/proc entry as well (another script, or an earlier part of that one,
mounts /proc automatically).
-D
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