Re: [PATCH 1/1] image.bbclass: default USE_DEVFS to '1'

[ChenQi <Qi.Chen@windriver.com>]

On 12/09/2013 07:52 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I agree with the commit but ...
>
> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 1:17 AM,  <Qi.Chen@windriver.com> wrote:
>> From: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen@windriver.com>
>>
>> Default USE_DEVFS to "1" so that the `makedevs' command is not run
>> at rootfs time by default. There are mainly two reasons to do so.
>> 1. This will fix a build failure with initramfs-kexecboot-klibc-image.
> Can you elaborate this error? is it something we can/should fix?

It's "makedevs: No entry for root in search list ", just as Andrea said.
I've updated the commit message in remote tree.
http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/commit/?h=ChenQi/USE_DEVFS&id=435b6e6e34c4c65022e57b78a246cfd8fcd2d71f

Thanks,
Chen Qi

>> 2. Most of our images use a filesystem over /dev. Most of the time, it's
>>     just devtmpfs. So we actually are using a filesystem over /dev.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen@windriver.com>
>> ---
>>   meta/classes/image.bbclass |    2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/meta/classes/image.bbclass b/meta/classes/image.bbclass
>> index cc65e35..b8bd462 100644
>> --- a/meta/classes/image.bbclass
>> +++ b/meta/classes/image.bbclass
>> @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ PACKAGE_INSTALL_ATTEMPTONLY ?= "${FEATURE_INSTALL_OPTIONAL}"
>>   # Images are generally built explicitly, do not need to be part of world.
>>   EXCLUDE_FROM_WORLD = "1"
>>
>> -USE_DEVFS ?= "0"
>> +USE_DEVFS ?= "1"
>>
>>   PID = "${@os.getpid()}"
>>
>> --
>> 1.7.9.5
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