[lxc-devel] [PATCH] Support MS_SHARED / - issues calling MAKEDEV

Michael H. Warfield mhw at WittsEnd.com
Tue Jan 8 20:40:47 UTC 2013


On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 04:31 +0800, Alexander Vladimirov wrote:
> Well, properly placed hook could do all the things MAKEDEV supposed to do.

And would give us the flexibility to worry about things like serial
devices or some USB devices or a few other things that would ordinarily
be populated by udev but don't vary over the life of the container.

> 2013/1/9 Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn at canonical.com>:
> > Quoting Michael H. Warfield (mhw at WittsEnd.com):
> >> More on the MAKEDEV debacle...
> > ...
> >> This whole thing with MAKEDEV is looking more and more like a morass
> >> with no way to cleanly resolve it.
> >
> > It sounds like consensus is it should be dropped from staging?

+1 for dropping the call to MAKEDEV, yeah.

Regards,
Mike
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