From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Phil Blundell <pb@pbcl.net>
Cc: "openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org"
<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: image.bbclass: USE_DEVFS is now useless
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 18:51:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1396374702.2910.27.camel@ted> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1396374515.5879.54.camel@phil-desktop.brightsign>
On Tue, 2014-04-01 at 18:48 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
> Also note that the default for USE_DEVFS was (and is) 1, so the lack
> of this check is actually causing a difference in the default
> behaviour. If there's no appetite for reinstating the USE_DEVFS
> mechanism per se then it seems like it would be a good idea to make
> the default IMAGE_DEVICE_TABLE be blank in order to restore the
> previous default of no /dev in the rootfs.
>
> At present you get a somewhat arbitrary-seeming smattering of devices
> from meta/files/device_table-minimal.txt, including such anachronisms
> as /dev/ttySA0 and /dev/apm_bios. It's hard to imagine that anybody
> actually wants this stuff in their rootfs in this day and age.
Can we kill apmd at the same time? Please? :)
Cheers,
Richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-01 17:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-26 11:11 image.bbclass: USE_DEVFS is now useless Matthieu CRAPET
2014-04-01 17:44 ` Phil Blundell
2014-04-01 17:48 ` Phil Blundell
2014-04-01 17:51 ` Richard Purdie [this message]
2014-04-01 18:01 ` Mark Hatle
2014-04-01 19:34 ` Richard Purdie
2014-04-01 21:29 ` Phil Blundell
2014-04-02 8:47 ` Paul Eggleton
2014-04-02 8:08 ` Laurentiu Palcu
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