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| author | Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> | 2009-12-05 15:59:05 +0100 |
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| committer | Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> | 2009-12-05 15:59:05 +0100 |
| commit | f92874e747dae948fdfacf53537f554ccee7bd54 (patch) | |
| tree | 0b3832ac9cdb99d25294dcf86e23afb49a85e8c4 /docs/mdev.txt | |
| parent | a7329667b4c19fbe8ba077062f14a96038c094db (diff) | |
| download | busybox-f92874e747dae948fdfacf53537f554ccee7bd54.tar.gz | |
replace /bin/mdev with /sbin/mdev
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/mdev.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/mdev.txt b/docs/mdev.txt index 031e473a2..7bd00fe1b 100644 --- a/docs/mdev.txt +++ b/docs/mdev.txt @@ -17,12 +17,12 @@ updates, you also need to have hotplugging enabled in your kernel. Here's a typical code snippet from the init script: [0] mount -t proc proc /proc [1] mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys -[2] echo /bin/mdev > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug +[2] echo /sbin/mdev > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug [3] mdev -s Alternatively, without procfs the above becomes: [1] mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys -[2] sysctl -w kernel.hotplug=/bin/mdev +[2] sysctl -w kernel.hotplug=/sbin/mdev [3] mdev -s @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ code snippet: [6] mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts The simple explanation here is that [1] you need to have /sys mounted before -executing mdev. Then you [2] instruct the kernel to execute /bin/mdev whenever +executing mdev. Then you [2] instruct the kernel to execute /sbin/mdev whenever a device is added or removed so that the device node can be created or destroyed. Then you [3] seed /dev with all the device nodes that were created while the system was booting. |