[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] linux: Don't enable DEVTMPFS support for kernels older than 3.x.

[Peter Korsgaard]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Ryan Barnett
<rjbarnet at rockwellcollins.com> wrote:
> From: Matt Poduska <mjpodusk at rockwellcollins.com>
>
> In the case where DEVTMPFS is desired for older kernels where the
> support is experimental, it's still possible to enable the option in
> the board's specific linux .config instead of relying on buildroot to
> make the modification.

Why? 2.6.32 is 5+ years old by now, and expecting modern SW to work
with older kernels nowadays is probably not worth it. Udev has also
required devtmpfs since quite a while, so I don't think you should
read much into the "experimental" status.

If the kernel really is that ancient that it doesn't have devtmpfs,
then the .config mangling afaik becomes a noop, so I don't see what we
gain by not doing it.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard