From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Sai Prakash Ranjan <saiprakash.ranjan@codeaurora.org>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>,
Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>,
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [Regression] Missing device nodes for ETR, ETF and STM after CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER=n
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 13:33:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190726133316.688a43d8@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190726101925.GA22476@kroah.com>
Hello,
On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 12:19:25 +0200
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > This somehow is not mounting etr, etf, stm devices when uevent-helper is
> > disabled. Anyways as Suzuki mentioned, using devtmpfs does fix the issue.
>
> Last I looked (many years ago) mdev requires uevent-helper in order for
> it to work. I recommend that if you rely on mdev to keep that option
> enabled, or to just use devtmpfs and udev :)
Since Busybox 1.31.0, mdev has gained a daemon mode. In this mode, mdev
runs in the background, and receives uevent through a netlink socket.
So there's been some changes in how Busybox mdev works in recent times.
Best regards,
Thomas
--
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Sai Prakash Ranjan <saiprakash.ranjan@codeaurora.org>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>,
Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>,
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [Regression] Missing device nodes for ETR, ETF and STM after CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER=n
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 13:33:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190726133316.688a43d8@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190726101925.GA22476@kroah.com>
Hello,
On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 12:19:25 +0200
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > This somehow is not mounting etr, etf, stm devices when uevent-helper is
> > disabled. Anyways as Suzuki mentioned, using devtmpfs does fix the issue.
>
> Last I looked (many years ago) mdev requires uevent-helper in order for
> it to work. I recommend that if you rely on mdev to keep that option
> enabled, or to just use devtmpfs and udev :)
Since Busybox 1.31.0, mdev has gained a daemon mode. In this mode, mdev
runs in the background, and receives uevent through a netlink socket.
So there's been some changes in how Busybox mdev works in recent times.
Best regards,
Thomas
--
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-26 11:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-26 6:19 [Regression] Missing device nodes for ETR, ETF and STM after CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER=n Sai Prakash Ranjan
2019-07-26 6:19 ` Sai Prakash Ranjan
2019-07-26 6:26 ` Sai Prakash Ranjan
2019-07-26 6:26 ` Sai Prakash Ranjan
2019-07-26 7:04 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-07-26 7:04 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-07-26 8:20 ` Sai Prakash Ranjan
2019-07-26 8:20 ` Sai Prakash Ranjan
2019-07-26 8:41 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-07-26 8:41 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-07-26 9:28 ` Suzuki K Poulose
2019-07-26 9:28 ` Suzuki K Poulose
2019-07-26 9:58 ` Sai Prakash Ranjan
2019-07-26 9:58 ` Sai Prakash Ranjan
2019-07-26 10:02 ` Sai Prakash Ranjan
2019-07-26 10:02 ` Sai Prakash Ranjan
2019-07-26 9:44 ` Sai Prakash Ranjan
2019-07-26 9:44 ` Sai Prakash Ranjan
2019-07-26 10:14 ` Sai Prakash Ranjan
2019-07-26 10:14 ` Sai Prakash Ranjan
2019-07-26 10:19 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-07-26 10:19 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-07-26 10:24 ` Sai Prakash Ranjan
2019-07-26 10:24 ` Sai Prakash Ranjan
2019-07-26 11:33 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2019-07-26 11:33 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2019-07-26 11:43 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-07-26 11:43 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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