Re: new 2.6.13 kernel

["Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)" <jean.luc.coulon@gmail.com>]

Le 01.09.2005 22:06:49, Neil Gunton a écrit :
> Thomas Steffen wrote:
> > On 9/1/05, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) <jean.luc.coulon@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > But if you want to build an intird with mkinitrd (or --initrd  
> > > option of
> > > make-kpkg), the initrd needs devfs which has been dropped from
> > > kernel-2.6.13.
> >
> >
> > I didn't know that initrd depends on it, but certainly the debian
> > installer needs devfs. So that means no recent kernels for the debian
> > installer, I guess? I certainly think that this is going to be a
> > problem for installing Sarge on modern machines, and an unnecessary
> > one too, because devfs was declared dead a long time ago.
> >
> > Thomas
>
> Sorry, I'm a bit confused (also new here, so please forgive my  
> ignorance)... could someone please explain why on the one hand devfs  
> has (apparently) been dropped, but on the other hand it appears to be  
> required for installing with initrd on modern machines???
>
> What are we supposed to do instead? Is there reasoning behind this,  
> or is it a mistake of some kind?

devfs has been dropped because it is considered as obsolete (replaced  
by udev).
mkinitrd needs devfs but there are several other ways to build and  
initrd and these other ways dont necessarily needs devfs.

There is yaird which is an alternative or mkinitramfs (Ubuntu).

See this topic:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2005/08/msg01018.html


> TIA,
>
> /Neil

Jean-Luc

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