From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] system: allow using mdev for firmware loading only
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 15:49:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150706154959.4ac7d085@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1436188175-7912-1-git-send-email-luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Luca,
On Mon, 6 Jul 2015 15:09:34 +0200, Luca Ceresoli wrote:
> Busybox's mdev nicely provides the ability to load a firmware requested by
> the kernel.
>
> However, when using a static /dev management, mdev is not installed as a
> hotplug helper (i.e. S10mdev is not installed) and
> CONFIG_FEATURE_MDEV_LOAD_FIRMWARE is not enabled in the busybox
> configuration.
>
> Provide a knob for static /dev users to easily enable mdev for firmware
> loading.
>
> This is just a matter of extending the ifeq condition around the S10mdev
> installation and kconfig fixups that enable the needed configuration in
> busybox. But leave mdev.conf installation under the old condition, it's
> not needed for firmware loading.
>
> Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Are you really a poor soul stuck with a pre-2.6.32 kernel preventing
you from using devtmpfs ?
Best regards,
Thomas
--
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-06 13:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-06 13:09 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] system: allow using mdev for firmware loading only Luca Ceresoli
2015-07-06 13:09 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] rtl8188eu: new package Luca Ceresoli
2015-07-06 13:17 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-07-06 13:59 ` Luca Ceresoli
2015-07-06 14:36 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-07-18 21:30 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-07-21 16:26 ` Luca Ceresoli
2015-07-21 20:57 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-07-22 10:17 ` Luca Ceresoli
2015-07-22 11:26 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-07-06 13:49 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2015-07-06 14:08 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] system: allow using mdev for firmware loading only Luca Ceresoli
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