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

 * DebianPts:busybox '''uploaded'''

   DebianPts: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.

 * DebianPts:udev '''see DebianBug: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).<<BR>>'''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.<<BR>>'''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).

[[http://people.debian.org/~lunar/d-i-without-devfs/|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 [[http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-mdadm/mdadm/trunk/debian/FAQ?op=file&rev=0&sc=0|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}}}