From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Ceresoli Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2015 16:08:11 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] system: allow using mdev for firmware loading only In-Reply-To: <20150706154959.4ac7d085@free-electrons.com> References: <1436188175-7912-1-git-send-email-luca@lucaceresoli.net> <20150706154959.4ac7d085@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <559A8BCB.1020409@lucaceresoli.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Thomas, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > 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 ? "You, poor souls condemned to the Circle of Jurassic Kernel Users, shall be using 2.6.30.10... for eternity! Abandon all devtmpfs hope, ye who enter here!" Yes, I am doomed! :.(... -- Luca