On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> 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.
Why do you hardlink it to /dev/ttyS0? `console=ttyS0' does that automagically
if /dev/console is char major 5 minor 1.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.orgIn personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
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