I'm not sure exactly what you mean. If you mean: have a kernel config
option to mount devfs onto /proc/devfs, I don't that that is a good
idea. The reason being that you would also need to mount /proc in the
kernel. Better to leave these things to your boot scripts.
The reason there is a config option to mount devfs onto /dev is that
there is some kernel code which opens files in /dev before the init
process runs the init programme.
However, if you're only using devfs as an information provider to
devfsd, then your /dev will have real device nodes anyway.
If instead you mean have your boot scripts mount devfs onto
/proc/devfs, that would require an extra entry in /proc for the mount
point, which could be a config option. Once you have the mount point,
you can mount things in your boot scripts and tell devfsd where the
mount point it.
BTW: hopefully later today I'll have a new patch with the kernel-side
protocol implemented, and a samply devfsd :-)
Regards,
Richard....
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