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| author | Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com> | 2009-02-14 12:19:37 +0000 |
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| committer | Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com> | 2009-02-14 12:19:37 +0000 |
| commit | 52b56b7585e959af10d663665fa3099c3c3862d7 (patch) | |
| tree | e7732e4e987f1cadbe0a7188a9cf12da807db61a /miscutils/Config.in | |
| parent | bb5f8eddc432e2a5fdc632bfefbfed999115d272 (diff) | |
| download | busybox-52b56b7585e959af10d663665fa3099c3c3862d7.tar.gz | |
- improve helptext of obsolete devfs stuff..
Diffstat (limited to 'miscutils/Config.in')
| -rw-r--r-- | miscutils/Config.in | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/miscutils/Config.in b/miscutils/Config.in index f15547db1..c8d7253d8 100644 --- a/miscutils/Config.in +++ b/miscutils/Config.in @@ -158,7 +158,10 @@ config DEVFSD default n select FEATURE_SYSLOG help - This is deprecated, and will be removed at the end of 2008. + This is deprecated and should NOT be used anymore. + Use linux >= 2.6 (optionally with hotplug) and mdev instead! + See docs/mdev.txt for detailed instructions on how to use mdev + instead. Provides compatibility with old device names on a devfs systems. You should set it to true if you have devfs enabled. @@ -197,9 +200,11 @@ config FEATURE_DEVFS bool "Use devfs names for all devices (obsolete)" default n help - This is obsolete and will be going away at the end of 2008.. + This is obsolete and should NOT be used anymore. + Use linux >= 2.6 (optionally with hotplug) and mdev instead! - This tells busybox to look for names like /dev/loop/0 instead of + For legacy systems -- if there is no way around devfsd -- this + tells busybox to look for names like /dev/loop/0 instead of /dev/loop0. If your /dev directory has normal names instead of devfs names, you don't want this. |