From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-pv0-f175.google.com ([74.125.83.175]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QSItH-0000dF-2R for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 03 Jun 2011 03:09:31 +0200 Received: by pvc30 with SMTP id 30so689066pvc.6 for ; Thu, 02 Jun 2011 18:06:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:organization:to:subject:date:user-agent :references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=4FomxsByTcRRMhMRyIPxpA7jdBsvUmoodtw6ZC0auto=; b=cA+AkL5HgNKRRJ9N/wKx1GhuHh7yHEWi+0DZOQcycLuu8moMD95iKkIN8HuRz/Tsm9 tUQ94HPZQsa8q6+9WrExaXyXykBglcmFBuVcZQ+ygUIoo3B+WoRvcs/TXUUdcXx2aAu0 oAZHwJjmB77ewHRiI6PlyITkh9ktS8Y9effLk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:organization:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=j4dVT5ki7P6qBUmaHoCkkAQcSmFZ8+bIiEhC4Km9TtxbgjWaTK/BILgqeX97NPDllG dlLAzdvRNOr80fiDRmT8as66g4z0ui8+5C2ojFGjGuf4AXqfop5ezMkMDI2KK23oIWtw 1gNV9iJDMeiuN7wLrVLcHu+aAgIBN5XZ7b13Y= Received: by 10.68.29.130 with SMTP id k2mr520833pbh.514.1307063177746; Thu, 02 Jun 2011 18:06:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from perseus.localnet (99-57-141-118.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net [99.57.141.118]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p5sm986534pbk.84.2011.06.02.18.06.14 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 02 Jun 2011 18:06:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Khem Raj Organization: Sakrah Inc. To: "Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer" Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 18:06:13 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/2.6.38-8-generic; KDE/4.6.3; i686; ; ) References: <1307032661.27470.581.camel@rex> In-Reply-To: <1307032661.27470.581.camel@rex> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <201106021806.13486.raj.khem@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] busybox: enable mdev by default X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:09:31 -0000 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thursday, June 02, 2011 09:37:41 AM Richard Purdie wrote: > On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 20:40 +0000, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 20:37, Phil Blundell wrote: > > > On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 20:09 +0000, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > >> -# CONFIG_MDEV is not set > > >> +CONFIG_MDEV=y > > > > > > Per previous discussion, I am still uneasy about this change. I think > > > we really need some sort of coherent policy for what exactly the > > > default busybox configuration in oe-core is meant to be doing, and > > > then (if necessary) a set of patches to make it match the policy. > > > Just flipping random features on and off does not seem like a good way > > > to proceed. > > > > OE-core has support to mdev as device handling mechanism as such this > > ought to be enabled by default IMO. > > > > Personally it doesn't matter since I have already overriden it in my > > internal layer. > > I'm afraid I'm with Phil on this. I don't like the idea of enabling > something we don't actually use. This really needs to become some kind > of configure option which would at the same time disable/replace udev so > the patch in its currently form isn't acceptable. > mdev or udev are image features so probably should be controlled by IMAGE_FEATURES or some such > Cheers, > > Richard > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core