[Buildroot] r21760 and device_table.txt problems

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 07:47:34PM -0400, Christopher Taylor wrote:
> First, thank you all for your efforts.
> 
> I'm using r21760 and it appears that the device nodes aren't getting
> populated.  I realize that the root filesystem is now created in
> buildroot/project_build_ARCH/PROJECT/root but I don't see the device
> nodes specified by the device_table.txt
> 
> I'm assume I'm missing a step that tells buildroot to read the device
> table while it creates the root file system referenced above, but I
> didn't find it via make menuconfig.

Once the build finishes the device nodes will look like regular files.
This is because they are created within a fakeroot session. They can't
be real device nodes because that would require root priviledges at
build-time.

Hamish
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