Re: 2.6, devfs, SMP, SATA

From: Howard Chu
Date: Mon Sep 05 2005 - 23:37:14 EST


Pekka Enberg wrote:
On 9/5/05, Howard Chu <hyc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
So, any guesses why with otherwise identical config options, a kernel
with SMP enabled doesn't boot up with all of the device nodes that it
should? (Both drives are on the same controller. I haven't checked to
see if any other device files are missing.)

Devfs is disabled in 2.6.13 as it most likely will be going away soon.
See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111939455921877&w=2.
Thanks for the note. I guess I meant udev, or whatever it is that populates /dev these days.

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