Submitted By: Mario Fetka (mario dot fetka at gmail dot com)
Date: 2010-10-29
Initial Package Version: 3.4.10.907
Origin: gentoo busybox mdev-start.sh
Upstream Status: unknown
Description: create /dev entrys not created
 
diff -Naur genkernel-3.4.10.907.orig/defaults/initrd.scripts genkernel-3.4.10.907/defaults/initrd.scripts
--- genkernel-3.4.10.907.orig/defaults/initrd.scripts	2010-10-29 16:11:03.765695917 +0000
+++ genkernel-3.4.10.907/defaults/initrd.scripts	2010-10-29 17:26:49.262663667 +0000
@@ -284,9 +284,40 @@
 	/bin/ash
 }
 
+seed_dev()
+{
+	# Seed /dev with some things that we know we need
+
+	# creating /dev/console and /dev/tty1 to be able to write
+	# to $CONSOLE with/without bootsplash before mdev creates it
+	[ -c /dev/console ] || mknod /dev/console c 5 1
+	[ -c /dev/tty1 ] || mknod /dev/tty1 c 4 1
+
+	# udevd will dup its stdin/stdout/stderr to /dev/null
+	# and we do not want a file which gets buffered in ram
+	[ -c /dev/null ] || mknod /dev/null c 1 3
+
+	# copy over any persistant things
+	if [ -d /lib/mdev/devices ] ; then
+		cp -RPp /lib/mdev/devices/* /dev 2>/dev/null
+	fi
+
+	# Not provided by sysfs but needed
+	ln -snf /proc/self/fd /dev/fd
+	ln -snf fd/0 /dev/stdin
+	ln -snf fd/1 /dev/stdout
+	ln -snf fd/2 /dev/stderr
+	[ -e /proc/kcore ] && ln -snf /proc/kcore /dev/core
+
+	# Create problematic directories
+	mkdir -p /dev/pts /dev/shm
+}
+
 runmdev() {
 	# busybox udev replacement
 	mdev -s
+	# add missing dev entrys for nas devices without console
+	seed_dev
 }
 
 test_success() {