From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sjhill at realitydiluted.com Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 10:18:26 -0500 Subject: [Buildroot] efficient usb plug in notification In-Reply-To: <2590773a0808060810o7c07b114ude1a67ed8745dd41@mail.gmail.com> References: <2590773a0808060810o7c07b114ude1a67ed8745dd41@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20080806151826.GA9470@real.realitydiluted.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net > I'm trying to see what my best options are of getting USB plugin > notifications in user-space in a buildroot/uClibc env. > Is this for USB storage devices only, or all types of USB devices? > Since this is an embedded platform, I'm really concerned about > efficiency of the mechanisms and I'm not sure how efficient udev + > dbus + hal is. Does anyone have any thoughts on this and what some > reasonable alternatives are within the buildroot chain? > I used 'udev' in all my embedded platforms. I did the original work of getting dbus and hal into buildroot, but it was a royal pain. If you are just doing USB storage devices, look at the usbmount package. It works great and I can certainly help you with that if you hit any snags. -Steve