[Buildroot] [PATCH 0/20 v2 RFC] Introduce libudev (branch yem/libudev)

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sat Jun 14 10:08:29 UTC 2014


Dear Yann E. MORIN,

On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 12:05:21 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:

> > To be honest, I am far from being a udev expert, but I have a question
> > about the rationale behind a libudev-only configuration.
> 
> It is my understanding that libudev is not used to talk to a udev
> daemon, but is used to present a view of sysfs, instead of leaving
> all application reinvent their own walking of /sys, and libudev also
> provides monitoring of devices:
>     http://www.signal11.us/oss/udev/

Hum, ok, makes sense. It just uses sysfs and that's it. Thanks for the
explanation!

Thomas
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