Wrong order of operation in mdev.txt

[Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia]

I think that it is just the numbers that are wrong as the text explicitly
says that steps 4-6 must be executed "before" the previous code snippet (so
4-6 would actually be run before 1-3)

But it is indeed misleading.

Guillermo

El domingo, 8 de marzo de 2015, Harald Becker <ralda at gmx.de> escribió:

> Hi !
>
> I just stumbled about a disordering of operations in docs/mdev.txt:
>
> ---cut-here---
> Basic Use
> ...
> [0] mount -t proc proc /proc
> [1] mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys
> [2] echo /sbin/mdev > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug
> [3] mdev -s
>
> Alternatively, without procfs the above becomes:
> [1] mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys
> [2] sysctl -w kernel.hotplug=/sbin/mdev
> [3] mdev -s
>
> Of course, a more "full" setup would entail executing this before the
> previous
> code snippet:
> [4] mount -t tmpfs -o size=64k,mode=0755 tmpfs /dev
> [5] mkdir /dev/pts
> [6] mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts
> ---cut-here---
>
> Look at the order of steps [3] and [4]. If you do "mdev -s" you populate
> the current /dev. In step [4] then you mount a tmpfs over the populated dev
> directory. This will result in a visible empty dev directory, as the
> populated directory gets hidden by the mounted tmpfs. So the order of steps
> should be 0, 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 then 3.
>
> Would be better someone changes the doc, as I'm not a native English
> speaker.
>
> --
> Harald
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