[Buildroot] [PATCH 0/20 v2 RFC] Introduce libudev (branch yem/libudev)

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Thomas, All,

On 2014-06-14 10:01 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 01:02:39 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> 
> > Big fat warning: this is only an RFC for now!
> > 
> > This series introduces the possibility to just build and install libudev,
> > without requiring that the /dev management be handled by eudev or systemd.
> > 
> > A lot of packages that have a dependency on udev, in fact only require a
> > libudev, not anudev daemon. That's the case for e.g. libinput, libcec,
> > mesa3d...
> 
> To be honest, I am far from being a udev expert, but I have a question
> about the rationale behind a libudev-only configuration.

It is my understanding that libudev is not used to talk to a udev
daemon, but is used to present a view of sysfs, instead of leaving
all application reinvent their own walking of /sys, and libudev also
provides monitoring of devices:
    http://www.signal11.us/oss/udev/

Now, how libudev and a udev daemon play together, I have no idea. ;-)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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