From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gustavo Zacarias Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 11:01:29 -0300 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] busybox: register mdev as hotplug helper In-Reply-To: <20130728155156.1bc37ffd@skate> References: <1373574654-32427-1-git-send-email-gustavo@zacarias.com.ar> <51DFDA1F.60904@zacarias.com.ar> <51F50077.2060204@zacarias.com.ar> <20130728151418.70891325@skate> <51F51EBE.4000701@zacarias.com.ar> <20130728155156.1bc37ffd@skate> Message-ID: <51F52439.4060001@zacarias.com.ar> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 07/28/2013 10:51 AM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: >> For mdev that can be solved, at worst it'll be an (almost) no-op, >> devtmpfs is another story. > > That's true. It basically boils down to helping people or not on alternate scenarios. Some random guy in #pandaboard was having issues loading firmware on a prebuilt kernel (which sometimes happens to be a sore PITA to build a working kernel with some vendors/for some people, no point in arguing that no matter how much we wish everything were upstreamed/vanilla) for WiFi support and (obviously) mdev wasn't working. Solution was get your kernel source/config right, or fix the script. The script was a quick way out without bad side effects. On a personal level i don't care about the patch, it was just a quick and painless way of fixing a common problem. Regards.