[Buildroot] [PATCH] eudev: prevent udev init script nonexistent directory error

Joshua Henderson joshua.henderson at microchip.com
Thu Mar 22 16:20:01 UTC 2018


The following error occures in the udev init script because the kernel config
may optionally not include uevent_helper.

/etc/init.d/S10udev: line 47: can't create /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug: nonexistent directory

Work around this by not trying to access the destination if it's not available.

Signed-off-by: Joshua Henderson <joshua.henderson at microchip.com>
---
 package/eudev/S10udev | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/package/eudev/S10udev b/package/eudev/S10udev
index 640fec6..47c715c 100755
--- a/package/eudev/S10udev
+++ b/package/eudev/S10udev
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ test -r $UDEV_CONFIG || exit 6
 case "$1" in
     start)
         printf "Populating %s using udev: " "${udev_root:-/dev}"
-        printf '\000\000\000\000' > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug
+        [ -e /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug ] && printf '\000\000\000\000' > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug
         $UDEV_BIN -d || { echo "FAIL"; exit 1; }
         udevadm trigger --type=subsystems --action=add
         udevadm trigger --type=devices --action=add
-- 
2.7.4



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