[Buildroot] Device files and Buildroot

[Felipe Contreras]

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Le Sat, 3 Dec 2011 01:25:41 +0100,
> Aleksander Dutkowski <adutkowski at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>> "System configuration --> Custom script to run before creating
>> filesystem image" input is for specify a PATH to bash script.
>> You you must simply create script, fill with mknod commands (remember
>> - mknod can be ran only by root! so do 'sudo mknod')
>
> No, no, no and no ! I'm sorry but this is totally horrible and is
> definitely not the way of doing things with Buildroot.
>
> With Buildroot, you have four ways of managing the device files
> in /dev. The mechanism used to manage device files is configured from
> System configuration -> /dev management. The four ways are :

Why is this not described when one press '?' on the menu options?

Cheers.

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Felipe Contreras