[Buildroot] mdev handling

[William Wagner <will_wagner@carallon.com>]

  On 08/09/2010 15:07, Yegor Yefremov wrote:
> AFAIK mdev activation leads only to adding this binary to the rootfs
> tree. What about starting script? Would it make sense to create
> /etc/init.d/S1mdev with the following content:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> # Start the mdev....
> #
>
> case "$1" in
>    start)
>          echo "Starting mdev..."
>          echo /sbin/mdev>  /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug
>          /sbin/mdev -s
>          ;;
>    stop)
> .......

This is what I do on every project I use with mdev, seems like adding an 
option would be good

> echo /sbin/mdev>  /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug - only if such an option
> selected. fstab should be also changed to have
>
> tmpfs           /dev           tmpfs    size=1M          0      0
>
> added. (The size should be much smaller, this is only for testing)

Again these two sound like sensible options.

Regards
Will

> What do you think about this?
>
> Regards,
> Yegor
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