[Buildroot] package/hotplug

[H Hartley Sweeten]

On Thursday, August 19, 2010 2:26 AM, Will Newton wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 1:43 AM, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I am trying to get USB memory stick hotplugging to work on my busybox
>> system.  I would like to be able to attach a memory stick and have the
>> system auto mount the drive.
>>
>> I assumed that I would need to enable hotplug package to do this but
>> it is normally disabled by BR2_PACKAGE_BUSYBOX_SHOW_OTHERS.  I have
>> looked thru the busybox configuration and can't find anything that
>> would replace the hotplug app.  Did I overlook something?
>
> mdev from busybox should do what you need. You'll need a line like
> this in your inittab:
>
> ::sysinit:/bin/echo /sbin/mdev > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug
>
> It's not as flexible as udev, but should do what you need.

Hello Will, thanks for the reply.

I have already tried 'echo /sbin/mdev > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug' from
a command line.  When I insert the USB memory stick it is detected but
not mounted (same result without the command above).

I just tried adding the line above to my inittab and I get the same
result.

usb 2-1.4: new high speed USB device using fsl-ehci and address 4
usb 2-1.4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     USB      Flash Disk       4.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 499071 2048-byte logical blocks: (1.02 GB/974 MiB)
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 499071 2048-byte logical blocks: (1.02 GB/974 MiB)
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
 sda:
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 499071 2048-byte logical blocks: (1.02 GB/974 MiB)
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk

My buildroot setup is pretty much a generic arm config.  This config
uses the device table from target/generic/device_table.txt so the
/dev/sda nodes actually exist even before the USB memory stick is
connected.  I assume mdev would create them if then were not there.

I can mount the drive manually:

# cat /proc/partitions  | grep sda
   8        0     998142 sda
# ls /mnt
# mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt
# ls /mnt
test_file.txt
# mount | grep sda
/dev/sda on /mnt type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,errors=remount-ro)

But, how to I get mdev to mount the drive after it's detected?

Regards,
Hartley