[Buildroot] Towards 2015.05-rc1

[Gustavo Zacarias]

On 04/22/2015 07:18 PM, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:

>  Since udev rules are IMHO a lot more complicated than mdev rules and you
> usually don't need that complexity in embedded systems, I think there really is
> a case to be made for avoiding full udev. Of course, it's always possible to
> remove the udev start script in a post-build script (which effectively makes
> udev dead code), but it is definitely nice to know which packages will work
> without udev running. So that's what I would like this libudev stuff to do.
> 
>  For example, I have one system that used to be based on mdev. Now we have to
> add modem-manager to it, and modem-manager depends on udev. So I've enabled
> udev, but now I have to replace the mdev rules with udev rules and I probably
> also have to get rid of some of the default udev rules which are not appropriate.

There's also usbutils which now requires the udev hwdb and libudev.
I expect to see this kind of requirement for other packages in the
future, the latest pciutils for example benefits with the same trickery,
and though it still works without it i wonder for how long.
Regards.