Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Collins Richey <erichey2@××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing /dev/xxx entries on _rc5
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 14:36:15
Message-Id: 20010707144551.4bc3a785.erichey2@home.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing /dev/xxx entries on _rc5 by AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)
1 On Sat, 07 Jul 2001 21:13:43 +0200 AGottinger@××××××××.de (Achim Gottinger) wrote:
2
3 > Collins Richey wrote:
4 > >
5 > > On Sat, 7 Jul 2001 12:15:19 -0600 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> wrote:
6 > >
7 > > > On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 12:03:39PM +0000, Collins Richey wrote:
8 > > >
9 > > > > I didn't keep good enough notes when I put up _rc4. The /dev directory does
10 > > > > not have entries for PC sound and SCSI devices like sr0 (needed for IDE-SCSI
11 > > > > support of CD-RW).
12 > > >
13 > > > I'll add this back; it looks like someone forgot to re-enable them when adding
14 > > > back the generic-i386 devices to baselayout.
15 > > >
16 > > > > I don't see any version of makedev (I know, this is semi-obsolete), so what
17 > > > > is the Gentoo way of setting up these /dev entries?
18 > > >
19 > > > MAKEDEV (all caps)
20 > > >
21 > >
22 > > The supplied MAKEDEV apparently has nothing for /dev/sr0 and /dev/sr1 (ide CDROM devices, IDE-SCSI).
23 > >
24 > > --
25 > > Collins Richey
26 > > Denver Area
27 > > Gentoo_rc5 XFCE
28 > >
29 > > _______________________________________________
30 > > gentoo-dev mailing list
31 > > gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
32 > > http://cvs.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev
33 > Hi Coolins,
34 >
35 > we use devfs by default now, that's why there is only a basic set of
36 > devices in /dev
37 >
38
39 Do you have any instructions for using devfs? I could certainly do that too.
40
41 --
42 Collins Richey
43 Denver Area
44 Gentoo_rc5 XFCE

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing /dev/xxx entries on _rc5 "Thomas M. Beaudry" <k8la@××××.net>