Re: kern/41312: panic when /dev is missing

[Jean-Edouard Babin <jeb%jeb.com.fr@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/41312; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jean-Edouard Babin <jeb%jeb.com.fr@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost,
 gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
 netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/41312: panic when /dev is missing
Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 01:44:46 +0200

 Yes, you're right, I tried with MAKEDEV and MAKEDEV.local in /dev and  
 it work as expected.
 
 I've no longer the /dev of the system before my NetBSD 5 upgrade to  
 check if I had MAKEDEV in /dev but I don't remember that it was the  
 case.
 Also from http://www.netbsd.org/~jschauma/netbsd-solidstate.html it  
 seems that it was working even without MAKEDEV before.
 
  From what I see in the CVS, a warning has been added to -current 
(http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sbin/init/init.c.diff?r1=1.97&r2=1.98&f=h
 
 ) to warn when MAKEDEV is not found.
 This is a good news to understand with the panic comes.
 
 I guess the case can be closed. Sorry for the trouble