From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 18:55:54 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Wrong installation path? In-Reply-To: <20140131111153.036fcfd5@skate> References: <52EB629D.2030707@gmail.com> <20140131111153.036fcfd5@skate> Message-ID: <52EE86AA.2040609@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 31/01/14 11:11, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Dear Marco Trapanese, > > On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:45:17 +0100, Marco Trapanese wrote: [snip] > >> For example, the lirc documentation says I should find a /dev/lirc >> device if I'm using udev. >> But on my target (which has udev!) there is no such a device. > > Probably because your kernel configuration lacks the support for the > proper kernel subsystem or kernel drivers. > >> Where should I look at? How to know if I missed something in the >> buildroot/kernel configuration or just in the package (lirc) >> configuration files? Or because lirc should install a udev rule but the buildroot wrapper doesn't install it correctly (seems like since it looks like it also didn't get the init script right). Regards, Arnout > > The package (lirc) is independent from the presence of absence > of /dev/lirc. As long as /dev/lirc is not visible, then your > problem is a kernel configuration problem. Of course, make sure your > kernel has CONFIG_DEVTMPFS and CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT enabled, these are > mandatory if you use Buildroot udev support. See > http://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manual.html#_dev_management for > details. > > Best regards, > > Thomas > -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286500 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F