Re: Ruminations on Udev, null and console

2011-02-23 Thread Simon Geard
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

Re: Ruminations on Udev, null and console

2011-02-23 Thread Simon Geard
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 the current

Re: Ruminations on Udev, null and console

2011-02-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
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 may only

Re: Ruminations on Udev, null and console

2011-02-23 Thread alupu
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

Re: Ruminations on Udev, null and console

2011-02-23 Thread Neal Murphy
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 uses