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authorKay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>2005-11-25 18:50:42 +0100
committerKay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>2005-11-25 18:50:42 +0100
commita8a614a7018918e987585c2d07189024c640cb3a (patch)
tree7e9abd5c9fcfdeaadcbcbb12a9da4ac8630b0d7c /README
parent8d1425d54717b9b9ec06efdd1dd25559445e2571 (diff)
remove outdated and misleading stuff
Packagers who still need this, should carry it in their own package. It just causes too much trouble to users to have it in the tree and expect that it's needed or the way to do it. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
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@@ -36,11 +36,13 @@ Operation:
a tmpfs filesystem mounted, which is populated from scratch by udev.
Created nodes or changed permissions don't survive a reboot.
- - The content of /lib/udev/devices directory should be copied over to the
- tmpfs mounted /dev, to provide the required nodes to initialize udev.
+ - The content of /lib/udev/devices directory which contains the nodes,
+ symlinks and directories, which are always expected to be in/dev, should
+ be copied over to the tmpfs mounted /dev, to provide the required nodes
+ to initialize udev and continue booting.
- - The udevd daemon must be started to receive netlink events from the kernel
- driver core.
+ - The udevd daemon must be started by an init script to receive netlink
+ events from the kernel driver core.
- From kernel version 2.6.15 on, the hotplug helper /sbin/hotplug should
be disabled with an init script before the boot scripts are run and