> "Felix" == Felix Fietkau writes:
>>> OpenWrt works just fine without DEVTMPFS - doesn't matter if initramfs
>>> is enabled or not.
>>
>> The discussion is about adding a patch to up upstream ARC kernel, not
>> specific to
>> openwrt.
> Right. I belive that the upstream kernel shoul
On 2016-01-16 11:35, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>> "Felix" == Felix Fietkau writes:
>
> >>> OpenWrt works just fine without DEVTMPFS - doesn't matter if initramfs
> >>> is enabled or not.
> >>
> >> The discussion is about adding a patch to up upstream ARC kernel, not
> specific to
> >> ope
> "Felix" == Felix Fietkau writes:
Hi,
>> Out of interest, why is that? Devtmpfs got added 7 years ago (2.6.32) -
>> And is easy to backport if really needed, is easier and more flexible
>> than a bunch of static mknods, and probably smaller as well.
> We don't need to backport anything.
On 2016-01-16 12:00, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> >> We changed to devtmpfs by default in Buildroot quite some time ago, and
> >> I'm pretty happy with it.
> > We need to have dynamically created device nodes anyway - for managing
> > permissions, being able to change names, etc. Because of that, d
