Hi,
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 10:03:58AM -0700, Richard Gooch wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin writes:
> > The second is that devfs seems to think it is above the normal way of
> > doing things (unlike ALL OTHER filesystems, including procfs and
> > shmfs) and not only will mount itself on /dev automatically, but will
> > do so *by default*.
> No, it's not antisocial. It was done for good reason. Before I even
> consider changing the default, I want someone to fix init/main:init()
> so it doesn't do:
> if (open("/dev/console", O_RDWR, 0) < 0)
> printk("Warning: unable to open an initial console.\n");
Really? I've got two machines here on which /dev/console is a hard
link to /dev/ttyS0. I cannot have that functionality with devfs? No
problem, I disable devfs on every kernel build I make from now on.
--Stephen
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