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Date:      Sun, 1 Aug 2004 23:40:37 +0800
From:      Jiawei Ye <leafy7382@gmail.com>
To:        Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /dev/null doesn't get created
Message-ID:  <c21e92e204080108406036d16d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <40C00E30F59A43167A9FFDC0@nescarba.in.t-online.fr>
References:  <40C00E30F59A43167A9FFDC0@nescarba.in.t-online.fr>

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On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 17:21:12 +0200, Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org> wrote:
> +-le 01/08/2004 11:07 -0400, Derek Tattersall =E9crivait :
> | CURRENT as of this morning dint'create /dev/null.  My previous
> | CURRENT, from July 25 created it fine so all was well.Can anybody
> | offer me a clue as to what this is all about?  I tried to figure out
> | what causes /dev/null to get created, but was unsuccessful.
>=20
>=20
> Maybe you did not read UPDATING :
>=20
> 20040801:
>        The /dev/mem, /dev/io /dev/(null/zero) devices are now modules,
>        so you may wish to add them to your kernel config file. See
>        GENERIC for examples.
>=20
> --
> Mathieu Arnold
'options io' is not in GENERIC, is this intended?

Jiawei Ye



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