[Buildroot] [PATCH 2 of 2] manual: explain format of comment about udev /dev management dependency

Thomas De Schampheleire patrickdepinguin at gmail.com
Thu Dec 19 20:13:02 UTC 2013


Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire at gmail.com>

---
 docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt |  17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt
--- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-directory.txt
@@ -270,6 +270,23 @@ kernel, use this format:
 foo needs a toolchain w/ featA, featB, featC and a Linux kernel to be built
 --------------------------
 
+Dependencies on udev /dev management
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+If a package needs udev /dev management, it should depend on symbol
++BR2_ROOTFS_DEVICE_CREATION_DYNAMIC_UDEV+, and the following comment
+should be added:
+
+--------------------------
+foo needs udev /dev management
+--------------------------
+
+If there is a dependency on both toolchain options and udev /dev
+management, use this format:
+
+--------------------------
+foo needs udev /dev management and a toolchain w/ featA, featB, featC
+--------------------------
+
 The +.mk+ file
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 [[adding-packages-mk]]


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