From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/20 v2 RFC] Introduce libudev (branch yem/libudev)
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 12:08:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140614120829.2b135ebe@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140614100521.GA3503@free.fr>
Dear Yann E. MORIN,
On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 12:05:21 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > 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/
Hum, ok, makes sense. It just uses sysfs and that's it. Thanks for the
explanation!
Thomas
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-13 23:02 [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/20 v2 RFC] Introduce libudev (branch yem/libudev) Yann E. MORIN
2014-06-13 23:02 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 01/20 RFC] package/xbmc: remove spurious build-dependency on udev Yann E. MORIN
2014-07-11 20:14 ` Bernd Kuhls
2014-06-13 23:02 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 02/20 RFC] support/gen-manual-lists.py: remove unneeded arg in private function Yann E. MORIN
2014-06-15 19:35 ` Samuel Martin
2014-06-13 23:02 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 03/20 RFC] support/gen-manual-lists.py: bail out early for legacy symbols Yann E. MORIN
2014-06-15 19:38 ` Samuel Martin
2014-06-13 23:02 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 04/20 RFC] support/gen-manual-lists.py: rework generating the virtual package list Yann E. MORIN
2014-06-15 20:18 ` Samuel Martin
2014-06-15 21:06 ` Yann E. MORIN
2014-06-15 21:28 ` Samuel Martin
2014-06-13 23:02 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 05/20 RFC] package/eudev: remove the prompt Yann E. MORIN
2014-06-13 23:02 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 06/20 RFC] package/systemd: remove prompt Yann E. MORIN
2014-06-13 23:02 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 07/20 RFC] package/libudev: new virtual package Yann E. MORIN
2014-07-11 20:15 ` Bernd Kuhls
2014-06-13 23:02 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 08/20 RFC] package/eudev: is a provider for libudev Yann E. MORIN
2014-07-11 20:15 ` Bernd Kuhls
2014-06-13 23:02 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 09/20 RFC] package/systemd: " Yann E. MORIN
2014-06-13 23:02 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 10/20 RFC] package/eudev: split udev/libudev Yann E. MORIN
2014-06-13 23:02 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 11/20 RFC] package/libatasmart: needs libudev, not a udev daemon Yann E. MORIN
2014-06-13 23:02 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 12/20 RFC] package/libcec: " Yann E. MORIN
2014-07-11 20:20 ` Bernd Kuhls
2014-06-13 23:02 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 13/20 RFC] package/libdrm: can also use only libudev Yann E. MORIN
2014-06-13 23:02 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 14/20 RFC] package/libinput: needs libudev, not a udev daemon Yann E. MORIN
2014-06-13 23:02 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 15/20 RFC] package/libusb: " Yann E. MORIN
2014-06-13 23:02 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 16/20 RFC] package/mesa3d: depends on libudev, not udev Yann E. MORIN
2014-07-11 20:13 ` Bernd Kuhls
2014-06-13 23:02 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 17/20 RFC] package/vlc: needs libudev, not a udev daemon Yann E. MORIN
2014-06-13 23:02 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 18/20 RFC] package/weston: " Yann E. MORIN
2014-06-13 23:02 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 19/20 RFC] package/xdriver_xf86-input-evdev: " Yann E. MORIN
2014-06-13 23:02 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 20/20 RFC] package/xserver_xorg-server: " Yann E. MORIN
2014-06-14 8:01 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/20 v2 RFC] Introduce libudev (branch yem/libudev) Thomas Petazzoni
2014-06-14 10:05 ` Yann E. MORIN
2014-06-14 10:08 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
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