From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from relay1.mentorg.com ([192.94.38.131]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PzCEb-000481-67 for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 14 Mar 2011 19:11:13 +0100 Received: from svr-orw-exc-10.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.98.58]) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1PzCCy-000712-Gv from Tom_Rini@mentor.com ; Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:09:32 -0700 Received: from SVR-ORW-FEM-05.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.97.43]) by SVR-ORW-EXC-10.mgc.mentorg.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:09:21 -0700 Received: from [172.30.80.14] (147.34.91.1) by svr-orw-fem-05 (147.34.97.43) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.1.270.1; Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:09:31 -0700 Message-ID: <4D7E59CD.8090507@mentor.com> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:09:17 -0700 From: Tom Rini Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110223 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Khem Raj References: <1299958038-25216-1-git-send-email-otavio@ossystems.com.br> <1299958038-25216-6-git-send-email-otavio@ossystems.com.br> <4D7E4660.5050808@mentor.com> In-Reply-To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Mar 2011 18:09:21.0474 (UTC) FILETIME=[F16C3220:01CBE272] Cc: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/11] udev (165): move ConsoleKit support to udev-consolekit package X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:11:13 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 03/14/2011 11:00 AM, Khem Raj wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Tom Rini wrote: >> On 03/12/2011 03:03 PM, Koen Kooi wrote: >>> >>> Op 12 mrt 2011, om 21:21 heeft Otavio Salvador het volgende geschreven: >>> >>>> On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 16:27, Otavio Salvador >>>> wrote: >>>> ... >>>>> >>>>> -PACKAGES =+ "libudev libgudev udev-utils" >>>>> +PACKAGES =+ "libudev libgudev udev-utils udev-consolekit" >>>> >>>> ... >>>> >>>> Koen, can you take a look on this change? >>>> >>>> It seems Angstrom is the only used of this version and seems better to >>>> not provide support for consolekit by default so adding it as >>>> recommends or suggests seems wrong to me. >>> >>> If someone can quickly explain me what it does then we can see what needs >>> to get changed. Without having looked into it I think adding >>> RRECOMMENDS_${PN} += "udev-consolekit" to the consolekit recipe should fix >>> most possible breakage. >>> >>> Adding oe-core to CC: >>> >>> What are the plans in oe-core for udev? There currently is a recipe >>> overlayed in meta-oe because I haven't had time to look into the differences >>> between the oe-dev and oe-core version. If we're going to touch udev we >>> might as well do it properly :) >> >> Not sure off hand yet, but udev is one of the things we might need to keep a >> few versions around of, depending on how far back we want to support kernels >> out of the box. > > I would think this should be recommended into BSP layers then I wouldn't since we don't want every BSP to have to "re-invent" the udev wheel. And there's other bits of userspace where there's a relationship between the kernel version (the whole kernel headers version and iirc hipox machines thread on oe-devel). I'm not saying we need to keep every version of udev either, I'm just saying we know where there's cutoff points and we should have correct and maintained udev versions in the core. -- Tom Rini Mentor Graphics Corporation