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Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 19:01:25 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: devfs
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On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 09:06:18PM -0400, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> 
> 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?

initramfs might already contain a minimial /dev that has those kinds of
entries in it.

thanks,

greg k-h
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