From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 12:08:29 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/20 v2 RFC] Introduce libudev (branch yem/libudev) In-Reply-To: <20140614100521.GA3503@free.fr> References: <20140614100107.20b3c3be@free-electrons.com> <20140614100521.GA3503@free.fr> Message-ID: <20140614120829.2b135ebe@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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 -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com