[lxc-devel] call to setup_dev_symlinks with lxc.autodev

[William Dauchy]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com> wrote:
> I was just going to ask that question.  If that "system disk" is being
> created by scripts that are populating why are you (the OP) not creating
> those symlinks then?  According to the Linux Kernel documentation, they
> are suppose to be there in /dev.  This "system disk" does not comply
> with the kernel documentation.

see my previous answer.

> Whether we make the change for the error return or not, we should not
> make it dependent on autodev.  After reviewing the discussion thread
> leading up to the patch, I've concluded that will just open up some of
> the corner cases we were trying to cover.

if autodev is a problem, why not a new option? Again, it does not make
sense to have the possibility to disable kmsg/autodev if we can't
disable the creation of these four links.
-- 
William