mdev (cut-down udev in busybox)

[Andrew Taylor <>]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 05:05:28PM -0000, Gonzalo A. de la Vega wrote:
> the problem is not actually building the kernel, but getting udev to
> work with TS-Linux... but I guess I'll be able to get it to work... it
> can't be that difficult.

I've previously used a static /dev on my TS-72XX.  With the shift
2.6.21 I thought I'd try a dynamic /dev.  Busybox now includes
mdev (a min-udev)  which seem to provide enough fucntionality.
Appended is what I have in my /etc/rsS

Andrew

/bin/mount -n -t proc proc /proc   # busybox may need explicit path for this 
mount
mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys
mount -t tmpfs mdev /dev
mkdir /dev/pts
mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts
mkdir /dev/shm
mount -t tmpfs none /dev/shm 
ln -s /dev /dev/snd # work-around for mdev not creating files in sub-dirs
echo /sbin/mdev > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug
mdev -s