[Buildroot] [PATCH 10/10] package/mdevd: bump version to 0.1.1.0

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Wed Oct 2 19:25:14 UTC 2019


Arnout, All,

On 2019-10-01 10:35 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
> On 01/10/2019 08:50, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 01:14:41 +0200
> > Eric Le Bihan <eric.le.bihan.dev at free.fr> wrote:
> > 
> >> I did not know about the daemon mode of mdev, but mdevd was created to
> >> overcome the mdev forking issue [1] and predates the daemon option [2].
> >>
> >> So in the end, they provide the same features, with mdevd also complying
> >> with s6 notification mechanism [3], making it more tightly coupled with
> >> this init system.
> >>
> >> Given that there is no option in menuconfig to use a s6-based init
> >> system [4], I see no reason to add a "devtmpfs+mdevd" option ATM.
> > 
> > But then there is nothing that prevents them from enabling
> > devtmpfs+eudev as the /dev management system, and separately enable
> > mdevd. That wouldn't work very well.
> > 
> > On the other hand, if a user enables both openssh and dropbear, in
> > their default configuration, both will try to listen on TCP port 22,
> > which won't work as well. So perhaps we can live with having mdevd as a
> > standalone package, with no specific handling in the /dev management
> > choice. I'm just a bit worried about users who will enable this mdevd
> > package, while they are looking for Busybox mdev.
> 
>  AFAIU, the s6 tools are really an ecosystem. So I think it would make sense to
> move all of them into a "s6 system management" menu under System tools. That
> should make it sufficiently clear that this is not related to busybox mdev.

Doesn't s6 also come with an init system of its own, too? In which case,
it would be more akin to the systemd situation.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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