On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Dave Reisner <dreisner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> This adds an additional format to kmod static-nodes, which writes >> output as shell commands, e.g.: >> >> mknod '/dev/btrfs-control' c 10 234 >> mknod '/dev/loop-control' c 10 237 >> mkdir -m 755 -p '/dev/net' >> mknod '/dev/net/tun' c 10 200 >> >> Consumers of this format can simply pipe the output to a shell, >> creating the necessary static nodes. This could be useful for an >> initramfs which doesn't have systemd-tmpfiles but which still relies on >> static node creation which recent udev will no longer handle. > > I got a similar request from Harald (CC'ed), but instead to create the > nodes ourselves. > > The way you did fits better with the current purpose of the > static-nodes, but I'm ok with creating the nodes ourselves, too. For what it is worth, the reason I didn't originally create the nodes in kmod was that I didn't want to redo mkdir_label_parents() and label_context_set() in kmod. If you don't use SELinux I guess this doesn't matter though. Harald: why not put systemd-tmpfiles in dracut? Cheers, Tom -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-modules" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
