[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] system: allow using mdev for firmware loading only

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Jul 6 13:49:59 UTC 2015


Luca,

On Mon,  6 Jul 2015 15:09:34 +0200, Luca Ceresoli wrote:
> Busybox's mdev nicely provides the ability to load a firmware requested by
> the kernel.
> 
> However, when using a static /dev management, mdev is not installed as a
> hotplug helper (i.e. S10mdev is not installed) and
> CONFIG_FEATURE_MDEV_LOAD_FIRMWARE is not enabled in the busybox
> configuration.
> 
> Provide a knob for static /dev users to easily enable mdev for firmware
> loading.
> 
> This is just a matter of extending the ifeq condition around the S10mdev
> installation and kconfig fixups that enable the needed configuration in
> busybox. But leave mdev.conf installation under the old condition, it's
> not needed for firmware loading.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca at lucaceresoli.net>

Are you really a poor soul stuck with a pre-2.6.32 kernel preventing
you from using devtmpfs ?

Best regards,

Thomas
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Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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