[Buildroot] [RFC 3/6] system: add mdev-only /dev management (without devtmpfs)

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 14-09-15 21:34, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Luca Ceresoli,
> 
> On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 18:05:52 +0200, Luca Ceresoli wrote:
> 
>> But now I removed that patch, and replaced with a different
>> implementation based on Arnout's suggestion of using BUSYBOX_DEVICES.
> 
> I am not sure using BUSYBOX_DEVICES is fully correct. The reason
> why /dev/console is needed is *not* because of Busybox, but because of
> the kernel that is opening /dev/console before handing control over
> to the init application:
> 
>   http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/init/main.c#L1011
> 
> If you do BUSYBOX_DEVICES with just /dev/console, then you will also
> need a SYSVINIT_DEVICES with just /dev/console.
> 
> Though I admit my comment here is mainly nitpicking :)

 But of course you are right. This is part of the system/skeleton handling, and
now skeleton is a package, we can make it part of SKELETON_DEVICES.

 Regards,
 Arnout

> 
>>> One thing I dislike a bit is that there is quite a bit overlap between
>>> S10mdev and activate-mdev. As Arnout suggested, can you just mount a
>>> tmpfs in /dev in the inittab in the "mdev without devtmpfs" case, and
>>> then keep the normal S10mdev script?
>>
>> v2 will do things this way.
> 
> Great!
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Thomas
> 

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