Jeff Garzik writes:
> Richard Gooch wrote:
> > Hi, all. The default mounting behaviour for devfs has changed
> > recently :-(
>
> Thanks to the default mounting behavior change, people can compile
> devfs into their kernels without being forced to use it.
Of course, they could before as well: just add "devfs=nomount". Your
patch just made it more convenient to some people, at the cost of
breaking existing behaviour (and making it inconvenient to others).
Anyway, I don't really want to argue. I'm not happy about the change,
but the King Penguin has decided, and that's that. Unlike some people,
I won't keep screaming at the top of my lungs for him to change his
mind. I'll just grumble whenever I get a similar bug report ;-)
Hm. Maybe I should add a config option to control the default.
> > If your system no longer boots correctly (a typical
> > message is "Unable to open initial console"), you may have been caught
> > by this change. Look for the boot message:
> > Mounted devfs on /dev
>
> If there is a script that prints out a message "mounted devfs on /dev"
> but didn't really do so, that sounds like a bug.
I think you reversed the sense of what I wrote. If that message
*doesn't* appear, it's a sign that "devfs=mount" needs to be added.
Regards,
Richard....
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