[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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