[Buildroot] What to do about systemd/udev/eudev?
Rob Landley
rob at landley.net
Wed Mar 6 04:22:36 UTC 2013
On 03/05/2013 09:04:45 AM, Charles Krinke wrote:
> As a user working on an AM3517 project with buildroot, I am having
> trouble seeing anything wrong with the existing implementation of
> mdev. We have 802.11 and USB disks that are plugged in and removed and
> the mdev subsystem seems to be working fine.
>
> Having other alternatives is nice, but I hope we do not remove the
> existing mdev which appears to work fine in embedded systems.
>
> Charles
The existing mdev does work great. (solar at gentoo and myself designed
it, Denys has extended it quite a bit since then.) This would be an
extension for those other packages.
(It may be posible to just call some notify program and not modify mdev
at all.)
Rob
> On 3/5/13, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> > On 03/04/2013 12:21:56 PM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> >> However, if an application relies on libudev to get notifications
> of
> >> devices appearing/disappearing, or other services, then of course,
> it
> >> cannot work with mdev.
> >
> > Notifications are pretty straightforward. Should be possible for
> mdev
> > to poke something simple and a shim library to provide the right
> > interface...
> >
> > Rob
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> --
> Charles Krinke
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