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From: "»Q«" <boxcars@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: news item for udev 197-r3 upgrade (yes, I know, it's late)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 01:45:45
Message-Id: 20130123194537.52c64ee9@fuchsia.remarqs.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] news item for udev 197-r3 upgrade (yes, I know, it's late) by Christopher Head
1 On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:49:09 -0800
2 Christopher Head <chead@×××××.ca> wrote:
3
4 > On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:03:15 +0100
5 > Michael Weber <xmw@g.o> wrote:
6 >
7 > > On 01/23/2013 04:04 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
8 > > > System seems to work fine, so I'm not sure how essential that line
9 > > > is. The fact that I'm using an initramfs might also have an
10 > > > effect.
11 > >
12 > > I'd strongly suggest using CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y.
13 > > and stop worring about udev/openrc.
14 > >
15 > > udev/openrc stopped re-mounting /dev that last year.
16 >
17 > Are you sure? I have CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT disabled, latest stable
18 > udev (197-r3) and openrc (0.11.8), and no /dev line in my fstab, yet
19 > my /dev is still a devtmpfs with a proper set of device nodes.
20
21 Me too. It looks like /etc/init.d/udev-mount mounts it if the kernel
22 hasn't, but I'd like to know more about whatever best practice is.

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