[Buildroot] devtmpfs and initramfs

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On Wednesday 20 July 2011 09:44:31, Diego Iastrubni wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be>wrote:
> > On Tuesday 19 July 2011 12:33:13, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> > > >>>>> "Arnout" == Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> writes:
> > >  Arnout>  I ended up adding the following to my inittab:
> > >  
> > >  Arnout> null::sysinit:/bin/mount -t devtmpfs devtmpfs /dev
> > >  
> > >  Arnout>  Does anyone know a more elegant solution?
> > > 
> > > Not really - Besides adding a devtmps_mount() call in kernel_init(),
> > > but that's kind of icky as well.
> >  
> >  We could of course use the same trick as for GENERIC_SERIAL...
> >  
> >  Regards,
> >  Arnout
> 
> .. or... we can revert ca520507fc15a8213334a76339a3e6d567e91ea0 ... as I
> have seen 2-3 people have been reporting similar problems is the last few
> months.
> 
> see:
> http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2011-May/043266.html

 Call me stupid, but I don't see how that would help: the whole point is that 
I'm not using udev but devtmpfs...

 BTW, it looks like there never was any reply to your original post: /sys is 
mounted by the 'mount -a' in inittab, which looks at /etc/fstab and finds a 
/sys line there.

 Regards,
 Arnout
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