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

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 03/05/13 19:55, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Arnout Vandecappelle,
>
> On Tue, 05 Mar 2013 07:40:56 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
>
>>    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.
>
> udev 17 ? I guess you mean 182, right?
>
> Sure that's what Olivier Schonken's patch does. But how compatible are
> the libudev from the modern udev bundled with systemd, and the old udev?
>
> Also, Olivier's patch doesn't update all the packages that depend on
> udev so that they can either depend on the old udev, or systemd.

  Yes, that's what Olivier's patch does: packages that depend on udev 
will use the old udev, not the systemd udev.

  Hm, just now I realized that that means that you get two udevs when 
using systemd... OK, so this is not really the way to go :-(

  Regards,
  Arnout


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