[Buildroot] Towards 2015.05-rc1

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 04/19/15 23:02, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Bernd,
> 
> On Sun, 19 Apr 2015 22:14:24 +0200, Bernd Kuhls wrote:
> 
>> if possible and time allows for all involved persons I would like to see the 
>> libudev series stuff in the next buildroot release. 
> 
> As far as I remember, someone needs to take over this series, no? I
> believe you originally authored it, then Yann took over, then Peter
> proposed to take over but did not resend it as far as I know.
> 
> On my side, I am still a bit concerned by the usefulness of this
> series. The use cases you have are anyway running big things (Kodi,
> etc.) so I'm not sure why running udevd or not makes a big difference.
> It does seem a lot of additional complexity for not such a huge
> benefit.

 Since udev rules are IMHO a lot more complicated than mdev rules and you
usually don't need that complexity in embedded systems, I think there really is
a case to be made for avoiding full udev. Of course, it's always possible to
remove the udev start script in a post-build script (which effectively makes
udev dead code), but it is definitely nice to know which packages will work
without udev running. So that's what I would like this libudev stuff to do.

 For example, I have one system that used to be based on mdev. Now we have to
add modem-manager to it, and modem-manager depends on udev. So I've enabled
udev, but now I have to replace the mdev rules with udev rules and I probably
also have to get rid of some of the default udev rules which are not appropriate.


 Regards,
 Arnout


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