From bc4858fe99dbbebe57196d1bd400637f456a59dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Scott Rifenbark Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 16:16:35 -0800 Subject: dev-manual, ref-manual: Edits to dev manager section and USE_DEVFS var. Some minor edits to the original patch. These edits were caught by Robert P. J. Day. Reported-by: Robert P. J. Day (From yocto-docs rev: b50a2e44eccd50166351611f17c643cbbc60f8b8) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml') diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml index c2a361c6bb..a4992d1ce9 100644 --- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml +++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml @@ -7599,7 +7599,7 @@ is persistent and the required device nodes are created during the build. - Use devtmps with a Device Manager: + Use devtmpfs with a Device Manager: For this case, the /dev directory is provided by the kernel as an in-memory file system and is automatically populated by the kernel at runtime. @@ -7650,7 +7650,7 @@ -
+
Using <filename>devtmpfs</filename> and a Device Manager @@ -7662,10 +7662,11 @@ USE_DEVFS = "1" With this setting, the resulting /dev - is populated by the kernel using devtmpfs. + directory is populated by the kernel using + devtmpfs. Make sure the corresponding kernel configuration variable CONFIG_DEVTMPFS is set when building - you build a linux kernel. + you build a Linux kernel. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf