[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] image.bbclass: default USE_DEVFS to '1'

Otavio Salvador otavio at ossystems.com.br
Mon Dec 9 11:52:57 UTC 2013


Hello,

I agree with the commit but ...

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 1:17 AM,  <Qi.Chen at windriver.com> wrote:
> From: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen at windriver.com>
>
> Default USE_DEVFS to "1" so that the `makedevs' command is not run
> at rootfs time by default. There are mainly two reasons to do so.
> 1. This will fix a build failure with initramfs-kexecboot-klibc-image.

Can you elaborate this error? is it something we can/should fix?

> 2. Most of our images use a filesystem over /dev. Most of the time, it's
>    just devtmpfs. So we actually are using a filesystem over /dev.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen at windriver.com>
> ---
>  meta/classes/image.bbclass |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/meta/classes/image.bbclass b/meta/classes/image.bbclass
> index cc65e35..b8bd462 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/image.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/image.bbclass
> @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ PACKAGE_INSTALL_ATTEMPTONLY ?= "${FEATURE_INSTALL_OPTIONAL}"
>  # Images are generally built explicitly, do not need to be part of world.
>  EXCLUDE_FROM_WORLD = "1"
>
> -USE_DEVFS ?= "0"
> +USE_DEVFS ?= "1"
>
>  PID = "${@os.getpid()}"
>
> --
> 1.7.9.5
>
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