Re: [PATCH 4/4] busybox: Allow busybox-mdev to RPROVIDES hotplug

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, 2014-07-21 at 11:53 -0500, Ben Shelton wrote:
> From: Richard Tollerton <rich.tollerton@ni.com>
> 
> This is for symmetry with udev which also RPROVIDES hotplug.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Richard Tollerton <rich.tollerton@ni.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Shelton <ben.shelton@ni.com>
> ---
>  meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc
> index bd66e4f..b4b9684 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc
> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc
> @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN}-syslog = "busybox-syslog.service"
>  
>  CONFFILES_${PN}-syslog = "${sysconfdir}/syslog-startup.conf.${BPN}"
>  CONFFILES_${PN}-mdev = "${sysconfdir}/mdev.conf"
> +RPROVIDES_${PN}-mdev = "hotplug"
>  
>  RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = "${PN}-syslog ${PN}-udhcpc"

Why add this? I'm curious what would actually use that naming?

The RPROVIDES in udev was for backwards compatibility when hotplug
actually existed iirc, its long since dead?

Cheers,

Richard