[Buildroot] [PATCH] Create /dev/null device node when building a cpio rootfs
Dan Moulding
dan.moulding at rackwareinc.com
Tue Apr 29 19:18:51 UTC 2014
On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 12:37pm, "Arnout Vandecappelle" <arnout at mind.be> said:
>
> How is this issue limited to the cpio rootfs? You'll have the same issue
> with any rootfs, right?
Absolutely. But it was only making /dev/console for cpio... so I decided to follow suit, thinking maybe there was a good reason for it.
>
> So perhaps a better solution is to move /dev/console and /dev/null from
> device_table_dev.txt to device_table.txt.
>
Agreed.
> IOW this approach was suggested before but not really picked up.
>
Yes. And in fact, I had stumbled upon these past discussions when Googling about this. I just wasn't sure why it never got picked up.
Cheers,
-- Dan
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