[Buildroot] [PATCH] system: clarify /dev management using devtmpfs + {mdev, eudev}
Luca Ceresoli
luca at lucaceresoli.net
Sun Oct 4 09:43:35 UTC 2015
The "Dynamic using mdev" and "Dynamic using eudev" /dev management
methods are using devtmpfs, just like "Dynamic using devtmpfs only",
on top of which they add either mdev or eudev. But their names might
suggest they use mdev only or eudev only.
Clarify their descriptions by adding "devtmpfs +" to make it
unambiguous.
Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca at lucaceresoli.net>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be>
---
docs/manual/configure.txt | 7 ++++---
system/Config.in | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/manual/configure.txt b/docs/manual/configure.txt
index dd34eef..997be2b 100644
--- a/docs/manual/configure.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/configure.txt
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ different solutions to handle the +/dev+ directory :
responsibility to enable those two options (if you fail to do so,
your Buildroot system will not boot).
- * The third solution is *Dynamic using mdev*. This method also relies
+ * The third solution is *Dynamic using devtmpfs + mdev*. This method also relies
on the _devtmpfs_ virtual filesystem detailed above (so the
requirement to have +CONFIG_DEVTMPFS+ and +CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT+
enabled in the kernel configuration still apply), but adds the
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ different solutions to handle the +/dev+ directory :
about +mdev+ and the syntax of its configuration file, see
http://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/docs/mdev.txt.
- * The fourth solution is *Dynamic using eudev*. This method also
+ * The fourth solution is *Dynamic using devtmpfs + eudev*. This method also
relies on the _devtmpfs_ virtual filesystem detailed above, but
adds the +eudev+ userspace daemon on top of it. +eudev+ is a daemon
that runs in the background, and gets called by the kernel when a
@@ -327,7 +327,8 @@ different solutions to handle the +/dev+ directory :
The Buildroot developers recommendation is to start with the *Dynamic
using devtmpfs only* solution, until you have the need for userspace
to be notified when devices are added/removed, or if firmwares are
-needed, in which case *Dynamic using mdev* is usually a good solution.
+needed, in which case *Dynamic using devtmpfs + mdev* is usually a
+good solution.
Note that if +systemd+ is chosen as init system, /dev management will
be performed by the +udev+ program provided by +systemd+.
diff --git a/system/Config.in b/system/Config.in
index 45170d8..6afe896 100644
--- a/system/Config.in
+++ b/system/Config.in
@@ -110,11 +110,11 @@ config BR2_ROOTFS_DEVICE_CREATION_DYNAMIC_DEVTMPFS
bool "Dynamic using devtmpfs only"
config BR2_ROOTFS_DEVICE_CREATION_DYNAMIC_MDEV
- bool "Dynamic using mdev"
+ bool "Dynamic using devtmpfs + mdev"
select BR2_PACKAGE_BUSYBOX
config BR2_ROOTFS_DEVICE_CREATION_DYNAMIC_EUDEV
- bool "Dynamic using eudev"
+ bool "Dynamic using devtmpfs + eudev"
depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR
depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS
depends on BR2_USE_MMU # eudev
--
1.9.1
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