[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] makedevs: resync device creation with upstream busybox

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Sat, 5 Nov 2016 14:38:11 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle
(Essensium/Mind) wrote:
> In upstream busbyox, the code to create devices has been simplified:
> the code for a single and for multiple devices is no longer duplicated.
> 
> Since we are going to change the device creation code next, it's
> convenient to have only one copy to modify.
> 
> There are two behavioural changes with this, but they were introduced
> silently together with other commits in upstream busybox.
> 
> - When mknod() fails, the chmod was still done. This is pointless so it
>   is no longer done now.
> 
> - There was a check for mode != -1; however, a mode of -1 would not
>   have worked anyway because all bits would be set for mknod(), which
>   would fail. So this check is redundant.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be>
> ---
>  package/makedevs/makedevs.c | 47 +++++++++++++++------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)

Both applied to master, thanks a lot!

Thomas
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