Re: [PATCH] udev 182: Create a symlink of /lib/udev/udevd in /sbin

[ChenQi <Qi.Chen@windriver.com>]

On 11/27/2012 10:15 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Shakeel, Muhammad
> <muhammad_shakeel@mentor.com>  wrote:
>> From: Muhammad Shakeel<muhammad_shakeel@mentor.com>
>>
>>  From udev 174 changelog:
>> "The udev daemon moved to /lib/udev/udevd. Non-systemd init systems
>> and non-dracut initramfs image generators need to change the init
>> scripts. Alternatively the udev build needs to move udevd back to
>> /sbin or create a symlink in /sbin, which is not done by default."
>>
>> Also for 64 bit architectures there exists /lib64/udev instead of
>> /lib/udev and current init script fails to start udev.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Muhammad Shakeel<muhammad_shakeel@mentor.com>
> As far as I know, all code in master now handles it properly (the
> missing bits I sent a patch today) so why to include this symlink?
>
I'm not sure about this.

Two things:

1) Have we ever tested udev on a target where its ${base_libdir} is 
'/lib64'?
Apparently, if udevd is intalled under '/lib64', its init script cannot 
start udev correctly.

2) Bug#2804 is related to to udev and ${base_libdir}.
https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2804
(Some packages hardcode their udev rules directory to be 
'/lib/udev/rules.d/'. So can udev find them if the ${base_libdir} is 
'/lib64'? )