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authorgreg@kroah.com <greg@kroah.com>2004-02-18 23:59:54 -0800
committerGreg KH <gregkh@suse.de>2005-04-26 21:32:29 -0700
commit7fdc5cb4454d21b3451d3492f45e3891e5780f75 (patch)
tree99964cf33b35c0fb9ba71be38b82e94c2af89ecc
parentde46ad1952a40911eeea9fd941f578b6dacc1cec (diff)
[PATCH] more HOWTO cleanups.
-rw-r--r--HOWTO-udev_for_dev4
-rw-r--r--extras/start_udev11
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/HOWTO-udev_for_dev b/HOWTO-udev_for_dev
index 75a858f22a..a6d0892e37 100644
--- a/HOWTO-udev_for_dev
+++ b/HOWTO-udev_for_dev
@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE
I did this with the latest Fedora startup scripts with the patch at
the end of this file.
+ - make sure the /etc/udev/udev.conf file lists the udev_root as /dev.
+ It should contain the following line in order to work properly.
+ udev_root="/dev/"
+
- reboot into a 2.6 kernel and watch udev create all of the initial
device nodes in /dev
diff --git a/extras/start_udev b/extras/start_udev
index caba5270c2..3c39fc9260 100644
--- a/extras/start_udev
+++ b/extras/start_udev
@@ -4,11 +4,22 @@
#
# script to initialize /dev by using udev.
#
+# Copyright (C) 2004 Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
+#
+# Released under the GPL v2 only.
+#
# This needs to be run at the earliest possible point in the boot
# process.
#
# Based on the udev init.d script
#
+# Thanks go out to the Gentoo developers for proving
+# that this is possible to do.
+#
+# Yes, it's very verbose, feel free to turn off all of the echo calls,
+# they were there to make me feel better that everything was working
+# properly during development...
+#
. /etc/udev/udev.conf