Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 21:02:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 21:02:16 -0400 Received: from pcp809445pcs.nrockv01.md.comcast.net ([68.49.82.129]:8325 "EHLO zalem.puupuu.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 21:02:16 -0400 Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 21:06:18 -0400 From: Olivier Galibert To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: devfs Message-ID: <20020818210618.A1806@zalem.puupuu.org> Mail-Followup-To: Olivier Galibert , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1029709596.3331.32.camel@psuedomode> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from viro@math.psu.edu on Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 07:03:42PM -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 869 Lines: 20 On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 07:03:42PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote: > devfs "mount" option is an idiotic kludge that makes _kernel_ mount > it on /dev after the root fs had been mounted. Why it had been > introduced is a great mistery, since the normal way is to have a > corresponding line in /etc/fstab and have userland mount whatever > it needs. I've been wondering, imagine that in the future we have a working dynamic device filesystem (be it devfs, driverfs, whatever) nice enough that we don't want a disk-based /dev anymore. How are we supposed to mount it so that the kernel's open("/dev/console") succeeds? OG. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/