[plug] Debian Etch, kernel 2.6 and device special files

[Peter F Bradshaw]

Hi Tomasz;

On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Tomasz Grzegurzko wrote:

> > They're not; my understanding is that the init scripts will copy the
> > devices from /dev/.static to /dev every time the system boots.
> > Basically, run your mknod commands in here and the devices created
> > should a) appear in /dev next time you reboot and b) persist across
> > reboots.
> >
>
> Correct; so if you do you mknod's under there, they should be "permanent".

The files do already exist under /dev/.static/dev/. For instance,
/dev/.static/dev/dsp exists and is configured correctly wrt major,
minor.

>
> Tomasz
>

Cheers

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