[Buildroot] [PATCH v6 0/5] udev is now provided by systemd or eudev

[Lucas De Marchi]

Hi Peter,

Any plans to apply the rest of this series?

thanks
Lucas De Marchi

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Lucas De Marchi
<lucas.de.marchi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Eric Le Bihan
> <eric.le.bihan.dev at free.fr> wrote:
>> This series converts udev to a virtual package, either provided by systemd or
>> eudev.
>>
>> Starting with version 183, udev has been merged into systemd. This forces the
>> use of systemd as the init system if /dev is to be dynamically managed by
>> udev. eudev is a fork of udev, maintained by Gentoo, but isolated from
>> systemd, so it can be used with any init system.
>>
>> Systemd has been bumped to v207 and a new eudev package has been added.
>> Version 1.3 of eudev is in sync with systemd v207.
>>
>> The bump of systemd to v207 also introduces new options, like the activation
>> of the journal gateway.
>>
>> In the end:
>>
>>   - if systemd is selected as init system, the /dev management will handled by
>>     udev. No other choice possible.
>>   - if busybox or SysV is chosen, the user can choose to manage /dev
>>     statically, or dynamically using mdev or eudev.
>>
>> Changes v5 -> v6:
>>   - fixed packages not properly converted to BR2_PACKAGE_HAS_UDEV
>>     (reported by Samuel M.).
>>   - forced inotify support in Linux if eudev is used for /dev management.
>>   - forced inotify support in Linux if systemd is used as init system.
>>   - updated information about systemd requirements.
>
> Looks good. I'm successfully using this.
>
> thanks
>
> Lucas De Marchi



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