On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 22:38 -0500, Neal Murphy wrote:
> [rant] Digressing a little, I have a bone to pick with Kay Seivers and Greg K-
> H. Their attitude is that only symlinks should be used in /dev and created
> from udev rules (for the most part), and those symlinks may only be named
> with
>
On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 18:44 -0600, al...@verizon.net wrote:
> Unaware, many people still carry a lot of old stuff (including
> "console" and "null") on their "metal" /dev.
Not accidental. You should re-read "Preparing Virtual Kernel File
Systems" in the LFS book, specifically section 6.2.1 in th
Simon Geard wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 22:38 -0500, Neal Murphy wrote:
>> [rant] Digressing a little, I have a bone to pick with Kay Seivers and Greg
>> K-
>> H. Their attitude is that only symlinks should be used in /dev and created
>> from udev rules (for the most part), and those symlinks
Feb 23, 2011 04:58:10 AM, Simon Geard wrote:
> ... those nodes [null and console] are supposed to be there in
> /dev on the root partition.
> If you don't have them, you've missed a step in the build.
Hi Simon,
We're totally in sync here (if you take a look at the grand
finale of my OP :)
I had
On Wednesday 23 February 2011 04:54:10 Simon Geard wrote:
> Are you unaware then, that udev provides the /dev/disks/by-label
> directory, which contains volume labels as symlinks to the kernel-named
> devices? For example, my fstab file doesn't reference /dev/sda6 for
> the /home partition - it use
