Re: image.bbclass: USE_DEVFS is now useless

[Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>]

On 4/1/14, 12:51 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> 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? :)

Isn't this still used on some ARM and MIPS targets?  (they emulate apm for basic 
power management.)

If that's finally gone away -- I'd love to finally kill apmd and related.

--Mark

> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>