The beginning of the end for devfs [LWN.net]

The beginning of the end for devfs

Posted Sep 25, 2003 7:35 UTC (Thu) by ken (subscriber, #625)
In reply to: The beginning of the end for devfs by gregkh
Parent article: The beginning of the end for devfs

When using devfs I can have an empty /dev as the kernel takes care of filling it in but unless we are going to start the udev instead of /sbin/init that is not going to work anymore.

So what would a minimal /dev look like when using udev ?

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The beginning of the end for devfs

Posted Sep 25, 2003 23:48 UTC (Thu) by gregkh (subscriber, #8) [Link]

udev can start up before any devices are initialized, due to initramfs. So it will be able to populate an empty /dev from boot, just like devfs can.

I don't understand your question about /sbin/init.