[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] jffs2: let makedevs create device files

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at uclibc.org
Sat Jun 5 19:23:51 UTC 2010


>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:

 Thomas> The common filesystem infrastructure in fs/common.mk uses a smart
 Thomas> combination of makedevs and fakeroot to create the device files in the
 Thomas> target filesystem images without being root. This technique is applied
 Thomas> to all filesystem formats that rely on this common infrastructure, and
 Thomas> JFFS2 is one of them.

 Thomas> Therefore, using the -D option of mkfs.jffs2, which allows to specify
 Thomas> a device table, is redundant with the usage of makedevs. And it is
 Thomas> worst than redundant: for some reason, -D does not create all device
 Thomas> files with the correct major and minor numbers, as reported in bug

 Thomas> For coherence, we just remove the usage of mkfs.jffs2 -D option, and
 Thomas> rely on makedevs/fakeroot to create the device files.

 Thomas> This commit fixes bug #1771.

Committed, thanks!

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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