[Buildroot] What to do about systemd/udev/eudev?

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 04/03/13 11:16, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> Not saying this is the way to go at all as I haven't got stuck into mdev
> yet but thought I may as well air another option which Gentoo was
> following due to broken boot for seperate /usr without initramfs, which
> is to stay at the udev version 17? (I think before the 192?
> amalgamation or inheritance by an ignoramus) until the time that eudev
> is said to be ready for production.

  And this is exactly what Olivier Schonken's patch does, right? For 
systemd init systems, systemd's udev is used; for other init systems, the 
old udev 17 is used.

  As to compatibility of the udev library users: we can make them depend 
on BR2_ROOTFS_DEVICE_CREATION_SYSTEMD_DYNAMIC_UDEV if they really require 
the new udev. It's of course a pity that some simple package like 
libatasmart requires a specific init system to be installed, but that's 
what you get when you enter Leonard Poettering's cathedral...

  Regards,
  Arnout


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