Re: /dev/null doesn't get created

From: Mathieu Arnold (mat_at_FreeBSD.org)
Date: 08/01/04

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    Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 17:42:39 +0200
To: Jiawei Ye <leafy7382@gmail.com>

    +-le 01/08/2004 23:40 +0800, Jiawei Ye écrivait :
    | On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 17:21:12 +0200, Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org> wrote:
    |> +-le 01/08/2004 11:07 -0400, Derek Tattersall écrivait :
    |> | 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.
    |>
    |>
    |> Maybe you did not read UPDATING :
    |>
    |> 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.
    |>
    |> --
    |> Mathieu Arnold
    | 'options io' is not in GENERIC, is this intended?

    I think it's something he missed and I believe it's needed for X to work. 

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Mathieu Arnold

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