[PATCH]: Modifying init to create /dev/console and /dev/null

[Terry Barnaby]

Hi,

I have decided to have a go and add support to init to create
a tmpfs file system on /dev and the two main device nodes /dev/console 
and /dev/null if no /dev/console exists on the rootfs.

This feature is enabled with the FEATURE_INIT_UDEV option.

If this option is enabled and the file /dev/console does not exist then
init will mount a tmpfs file system on /dev and create the basic device 
nodes /dev/console and /dev/null. This allows a system to boot and run 
without any device nodes in the root file system. The system startup 
scripts can create additional device nodes as needed or a full udev 
implementation can then take over.

I am using this for my own system at the moment and thought I would 
release the patch for interest. This is probably not the best way to 
achieve the task in hand, but it does work well.

Cheers


Terry
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