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 :-) :-)
