From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 19:11:14 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] linux: don't automatically set uevent_helper with mdev /dev management In-Reply-To: <769563a34e142e85ec4c.1391761259@argentina> References: <769563a34e142e85ec4c.1391761259@argentina> Message-ID: <20140207181114.GC3510@free.fr> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Thomas, All, On 2014-02-07 09:20 +0100, Thomas De Schampheleire spake thusly: > When mdev /dev management is chosen in the buildroot configuration, the > Linux configuration is updated automatically to set option > CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH to "/sbin/mdev". However, the help text of this > option explicitly recommends not setting this option due to large > performance impact during boot (experienced first hand by the reporter ?nd > author). > > The mdev startup script S10mdev already sets the helper during userspace > boot, which will make sure mdev is working correctly. > > Fixes bug #6596: https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=6596 > > Reported-by: Andreas Koop > Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" Regards, Yann E. MORIN. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'