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authorEric Andersen2000-07-07 23:51:37 +0000
committerEric Andersen2000-07-07 23:51:37 +0000
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Better description of the BB_FEATURE_USE_DEVPS_PATCH option.
-Erik
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// pretty/useful).
//
//
-// Turn this on to use Erik's very cool devps, devmtab,
-// etc kernel drivers, thereby eliminating the need for
-// the /proc filesystem and thereby saving lots and lots
-// memory for more important things.
-// You can't use this and USE_PROCFS at the same time...
-// (BTW, I emailed Linus and this patch will not be going into the stock kernel)
+//
+// Turn this on to use Erik's very cool devps, devmtab, etc kernel drivers,
+// thereby eliminating the need for the /proc filesystem and thereby saving
+// lots and lots memory for more important things. You can not use this and
+// USE_PROCFS at the same time... NOTE: If you enable this feature, you
+// _must_ have patched the kernel to include the devps patch that is included
+// in the busybox/kernel-patches directory. You will also need to create some
+// device special files /dev on your embedded system:
+// mknod /dev/modules c 10 23
+// mknod /dev/mtab c 10 22
+// mknod /dev/ps c 10 21
+// I emailed Linus and this patch will not be going into the stock kernel.
//#define BB_FEATURE_USE_DEVPS_PATCH
//
// enable features that use the /proc filesystem (apps that