From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Ceresoli Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 00:07:56 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [RFC 3/6] system: add mdev-only /dev management (without devtmpfs) In-Reply-To: <55F72BC0.7050306@mind.be> References: <1441747734-18730-1-git-send-email-luca@lucaceresoli.net> <1441747734-18730-4-git-send-email-luca@lucaceresoli.net> <20150909132929.5c01433e@free-electrons.com> <55F6F060.2060901@lucaceresoli.net> <20150914213404.4fdd36a5@free-electrons.com> <55F72BC0.7050306@mind.be> Message-ID: <55F896BC.60006@lucaceresoli.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Arnout, Thomas, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote: > > > On 14-09-15 21:34, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: >> Dear Luca Ceresoli, >> >> On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 18:05:52 +0200, Luca Ceresoli wrote: >> >>> But now I removed that patch, and replaced with a different >>> implementation based on Arnout's suggestion of using BUSYBOX_DEVICES. >> >> I am not sure using BUSYBOX_DEVICES is fully correct. The reason >> why /dev/console is needed is *not* because of Busybox, but because of >> the kernel that is opening /dev/console before handing control over >> to the init application: >> >> http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/init/main.c#L1011 >> >> If you do BUSYBOX_DEVICES with just /dev/console, then you will also >> need a SYSVINIT_DEVICES with just /dev/console. >> >> Though I admit my comment here is mainly nitpicking :) > > But of course you are right. This is part of the system/skeleton handling, and > now skeleton is a package, we can make it part of SKELETON_DEVICES. Aah, yes, indeed! Thanks both. -- Luca