• DebianInstaller
• RemoveDevFS

This page describe the progress of removing usage of the obsolete devfs in the DebianInstaller.

• busybox uploaded

  • busybox was built with CONFIG_FEATURE_DEVFS activated. It needs to be deactivated in debian/config-udeb.

    We should not have any problems in uploading this change without any specific changes in the DebianInstaller. Testing might be desirable though. Current d-i and g-i work correctly with modified busybox on i386, provided the changes listed below for other components are also included.

• udev see 431556

  • Remove devfs.rules and compat-full.rules
  • Add z10_input.rules to create input device nodes in /dev/input (required for g-i) Works with modified busybox on i386, text d-i.

• Change /etc/inittab in rootskel to use tty2-tty4 for debug shells and syslog (committed in SVN; change works with current versions of busybox/udev).
  uploaded

• Change userdevfs to also create non-devfs device nodes (for arches that do not have a working udev ?). Missed in original analysis, but fixed in time by Colin.
  uploaded

• Graphical installer

  • Device files for input devices are created in /dev instead of /dev/input which makes starting directfb fail. Adding z10_input.rules in udev-udeb fixed this (see above).

Modified packages not in d-i tree:

• udev uploaded

Post-switch cleanup

After we've switched to use "regular" device names, we should be able to clean up quite a lot of code. The list below is far from complete.

• any references to /dev/discs/

• rootskel: various references to /dev/vc/*, /dev/fb/* and possibly others

• /dev/md should not be removed. See mdadm FAQ.

Impacted files:

• arch/m68k/vmelilo-installer/debian/postinst

• arch/s390/dasd/dasd.c

• arch/s390/zipl-installer/debian/zipl-installer.postinst

• debian-installer-utils/list-devices

• hw-detect/ethdetect.sh

• hw-detect/hw-detect.sh

• libdebian-installer/include/debian-installer.h

• libdebian-installer/src/system/devfs.c

• mdcfg/mdcfg.sh

• mdcfg/partconf-hook.sh

• partconf/README

• partitioner/main.c

• partman/partman-auto-raid/README

• partman/partman-auto/auto-shared.sh

• partman/partman-auto/auto.d/initial_auto

• partman/partman-base/definitions.sh

• partman/partman-crypto/crypto_tools.sh

• partman/partman-crypto/update.d/crypto_visuals

• partman/partman-lvm/undo.d/lvm

• sarge-support/termwrap

• userdevfs/S10userdevfs

• userdevfs/debian/rules

• userdevfs/init-dev

• userdevfs/update-dev

Done:

• floppy-retriever/debian/load-floppy.postinst

• autopartkit/autopartkit.c

• kbd-chooser/getfd.c

• mountfloppy/mountfloppy

• os-prober/README

• os-prober/os-prober

• partconf/find-parts.c

• partconf/fstab-common

• rootskel/src-bootfloppy/init

• rootskel/src/etc/fstab

• rootskel/src/init

• rootskel/src/lib/debian-installer/init-udev-devices

• rootskel/src/lib/debian-installer/detect-console-linux

• rootskel/src/lib/debian-installer-startup.d/S01mount

• rootskel/src/lib/debian-installer.d/S35framebuffer-linux

• arch/i386/lilo-installer/debian/lilo-installer.templates

• arch/i386/lilo-installer/debian/postinst