From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 15:49:59 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] system: allow using mdev for firmware loading only In-Reply-To: <1436188175-7912-1-git-send-email-luca@lucaceresoli.net> References: <1436188175-7912-1-git-send-email-luca@lucaceresoli.net> Message-ID: <20150706154959.4ac7d085@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.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 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