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Message-Id: <1250151940.18980.424.camel@skunk>
Date:	Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:25:40 +0200
From:	Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@...e.fr>
To:	Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@...gutronix.de>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Jan Blunck <jblunck@...e.de>, gregkh@...e.de,
	Harald Hoyer <harald@...hat.com>,
	Scott James Remnant <scott@...ntu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based
	/dev

On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 23:33 +0200, Robert Schwebel wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:15:13AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > Here's the devtmpfs patch again.
> 
> As an embedded distro maintainer, I'd really like such an approach. With
> ptxdist, we can today build the complete rootfs for an embedded system
> without root permissions - just if we want to nfs-root boot the boards
> during development, it doesn't work, because you have to create
> /dev/console, /dev/null and /dev/zero and that works only for root.

Have you tried genext2fs ? It lets you create a filesystem image
complete with device nodes as a normal user.

	Xav



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