Re: [OM Cooker] Odp.: Re: Makedev perl to bash conversion

'Twas brillig, and Per Øyvind Karlsen at 30/07/13 15:56 did gyre and gimble:
> 2013/7/30 Matthew Dawkins <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> 
>     Afaict makedev isn't even installed anymore...
> 
>     I don't have it on my installs... Do you?
>     Can we move to retired the package from main?
> 
> I think the only usefulness of makedev package is the files under /dev,
> in situations where /dev hasn't been mounted..
> These special devices could just as well be moved to a different package.

makedev is pretty much useless these days.

kmod now writes tmpfiles.d conf snippets in /run for creating static
device nodes via systemd-tmpfiles which will allow creation of static
nodes on early boot.

That said, most kernel drivers these days will create their own nodes as
needed and there is an ongoing effort to actually remove CAP_MKNOD from
processes that don't need it anyway, so the usefulness and desirability
of a statically generated /dev is really questionable these days.

Col

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