On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 06:12:46PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > > Well, the problem is that my fstab has /dev/hda10, but df shows the > devfs name. I've (almost) got something done which will turn > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/partX into /dev/hdaX and so on (at least > as much as we have OF aliases for). i am not opposed to ofpath supporting devfs, there are some criteria that MUST be met for me to accept a patch: 1) it must NOT damage, cripple, or remove standard, sane short non-devfs name support. 2) it must be pure posix /bin/sh code. read me lips, absolutly no bashisms. 3) it must not add any new dependencies to ofpath, that is to say, ofpath currently lives without nice stuff like sed, awk, cut etc. the only things out of /usr that is uses is find, head and tail and of those it only uses what busybox provides. ofpath MUST work on the debian boot-floppies, they are quite stripped and will not have new utilities added. you can use what utilities ofpath already uses, but no new ones. 4) persuant to 3, all calls to external utilities must be busybox compatible. 5) roughly follows my coding style, mainly i don't want to see patches with rediculous variables like MY_LONG_ASS_COMPLETLY_UNREADBLE_VARIABLE. 6) it must be a shell function say unfuckdevfs() that is called with one argument: /dev/retarded/devfs/name and outputs a normal, unix compliant terse name (eg: standard linux device name). i will almost certainly not accept a huge patch reworking all of ofpath solely to cater to devfs. > > if you can configure your system to never show devfs names (df is the > > problem usually) then yabootconfig and ofpath will work fine with > > devfs. > > Right. But that's not the default config. :) correct, the default config is CONFIG_FS_DEVFS=n as it should be ;-) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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