Eudev does not use /lib/udev/devices

[Chris Staub]

All devices are initially created in /dev by the devtmpfs, so Eudev doesn't copy anything from /lib/udev/devices anymore.

[bdubbs@…]

This change also needs to modify the mountvirtfs boot script, removing line 60:

cp -a /lib/udev/devices/* /dev

If the attached patch to the book is implemented without that, I think it will throw an (ignored) error because /lib/udev/devices/ will not exist.

[chris@…]

I don't see that line in the script, except in the bootscripts version for LFS 7.5.

[bdubbs@…]

Disregard my comment. I looked on an older system.

[Bryan Kadzban]

Hmm. I am pretty sure nothing in the kernel fits this description, but aren't there out-of-tree drivers that don't integrate with devtmpfs and thus still require manual device node creation?

For that matter, what creates /dev/pts before devpts is mounted there?

The book doesn't need the static nodes, but I'm thinking it may be good to keep the option as an escape hatch...

[bdubbs@…]

Perhaps we should remove /lib/udev/devices from the book for now, but leave it in the xml commented out. Then, if something comes up, we can easily restore it. Right now, I don't know of any reason to leave it in the book.

We do create /dev/pts in the mountfs boot script if it doesn't exist.

[bdubbs@…]

Fixed at revision 10626.