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From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: newsitem: unmasking udev-181
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:33:41
Message-Id: robbat2-20120312T193214-229732016Z@orbis-terrarum.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: newsitem: unmasking udev-181 by Matthias Hanft
1 On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 06:01:21PM +0100, Matthias Hanft wrote:
2 > Rich Freeman wrote:
3 > >
4 > > I think that makes the most sense. That news item can include links
5 > > to the documentation that gets written over the next few months.
6 >
7 > In the German (not Gentoo-specific) newsgroup de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc,
8 > someone mentioned that he upgraded to udev-180 and lost the device nodes
9 > for the hard disk (or something like that) because CONFIG_DEVTMPFS was
10 > not set in his kernel configuration. He says udev>=180 needs DEVTMPFS
11 > set. Is there any issue with Gentoo's udev-181 and CONFIG_DEVTMPFS?
12 We already issue a warning if you do not have CONFIG_DEVTMPFS.
13
14 It is required.
15
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17 Robin Hugh Johnson
18 Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead
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