From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id D4864E00D7F; Wed, 27 Apr 2016 02:22:08 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on yocto-www.yoctoproject.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-HAM-Report: * -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] Received: from mail.analogue-micro.com (mail.analogue-micro.com [217.144.149.242]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79059E00D7D for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2016 02:22:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.analogue-micro.com (Postfix, from userid 999) id 8B4FE68A01A; Wed, 27 Apr 2016 10:22:05 +0100 (BST) Received: from zeus.mlbassoc.com (unknown [10.8.0.2]) by mail.analogue-micro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4F6268A019; Wed, 27 Apr 2016 10:22:04 +0100 (BST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by zeus.mlbassoc.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97DDF6740363; Wed, 27 Apr 2016 11:22:03 +0200 (CEST) To: "Burton, Ross" References: <57207CC3.3020905@mlbassoc.com> From: Gary Thomas Message-ID: <572084BB.5090307@mlbassoc.com> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 11:22:03 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Cc: "yocto@yoctoproject.org" Subject: Re: eudev hwdb? X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 09:22:08 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2016-04-27 10:59, Burton, Ross wrote: > > On 27 April 2016 at 09:48, Gary Thomas > wrote: > > Is there any way to not have both the hwdb.bin (which I assume > is a binary version of the hardware databases) and /etc/udev/hwdb.d? > Perhaps there is some way to only use one? > > Or maybe there is a better choice, such as mdev? I'm not sure about > this (no experience) but my system needs to handle plug&play devices > which the current eudev does well. It's just a huge "price" to pay. > > > You could not install hwdb at all, it's a recommends so you can BAD_RECOMMENDS it away. It's certainly possible to wipe > away the source files for hwdb if you don't care about extending them at runtime but nobody has done that yet: a rootfs > postproccess hook could delete it and confirm that everything works fine. Can you explain a bit more? - BAD_RECOMMENDS doesn't seem to be documented. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------