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On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 20:40 +0000, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 20:37, Phil Blundell <pb@pbcl.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 20:09 +0000, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> >> -# CONFIG_MDEV is not set
> >> +CONFIG_MDEV=y
> >
> > Per previous discussion, I am still uneasy about this change.  I think
> > we really need some sort of coherent policy for what exactly the default
> > busybox configuration in oe-core is meant to be doing, and then (if
> > necessary) a set of patches to make it match the policy.  Just flipping
> > random features on and off does not seem like a good way to proceed.
> 
> OE-core has support to mdev as device handling mechanism as such this
> ought to be enabled by default IMO.
> 
> Personally it doesn't matter since I have already overriden it in my
> internal layer.

I'm afraid I'm with Phil on this. I don't like the idea of enabling
something we don't actually use. This really needs to become some kind
of configure option which would at the same time disable/replace udev so
the patch in its currently form isn't acceptable.

Cheers,

Richard