udevd: revert initial device node creation

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8eb5fc8e24721c1c2987a27c4eb65cc3c085c4fc..91698d5380aaac6cc7fb5e25fc35c7fcfca19c63 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,9 +2,6 @@ udev 142
 ========
 Bugfixes.
 
-The udev daemon will now create /dev/null, /dev/console, /dev/kmsg at
-startup, if they don't exist already.
-
 Libudev allows to subscribe to udev events. To prevent unwanted messages
 to be delivered, and waking up the subscribing process, a filter can be
 installed, to drop messages inside a kernel socket filter. The filters

diff --git a/udev/udevd.c b/udev/udevd.c
index d1a226673e6df8244ce8e5bbb071539ccb84657d..1aa50eb74cfbcdd00031aaf0c6d234c1416f91d7 100644 (file)
--- a/udev/udevd.c
+++ b/udev/udevd.c
@@ -708,28 +708,6 @@ static void export_initial_seqnum(struct udev *udev)
        }
 }
 
-/* create the nodes the we depend on to properly start up */
-static void setup_initial_nodes(struct udev *udev)
-{
-       struct udev_device *dev;
-
-       dev = udev_device_new_from_subsystem_sysname(udev, "mem", "null");
-       if (dev != NULL) {
-               udev_node_mknod(dev, "null", makedev(0,0), 0666, 0, 0);
-               udev_device_unref(dev);
-       }
-       dev = udev_device_new_from_subsystem_sysname(udev, "mem", "kmsg");
-       if (dev != NULL) {
-               udev_node_mknod(dev, "kmsg", makedev(0,0), 0660, 0, 0);
-               udev_device_unref(dev);
-       }
-       dev = udev_device_new_from_subsystem_sysname(udev, "tty", "console");
-       if (dev != NULL) {
-               udev_node_mknod(dev, "console", makedev(0,0), 0600, 0, 0);
-               udev_device_unref(dev);
-       }
-}
-
 static void startup_log(struct udev *udev)
 {
        FILE *f;
@@ -836,8 +814,6 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
                goto exit;
        }
 
-       setup_initial_nodes(udev);
-
        /* make sure std{in,out,err} fd's are in a sane state */
        fd = open("/dev/null", O_RDWR);
        if (fd < 0) {