[OE-core] [PATCH 0/4] Replaces udev with eudev for compatibility when using sysvinit on newer kernels

[Alejandro Hernandez]

On 02/26/2016 02:24 AM, Andre McCurdy wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 3:34 PM, Alejandro Hernandez
> <alejandro.hernandez at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> udev has started to fail on new kernels (4.4), due to being deprecated in favor
>> of systemd's udev implementation. To maintain a sysvinit alternative we also
>> need to provide an alternative to udev. Eudev is a fork of systemds udev,
>> this new eudev recipe provides upstream udev 220 funcitonality.
> Builds OK but results in the network no longer being started
> automatically at boot up - due to "eth0" now becoming "enp0s3".
>
> Adding an entry for enp0s3 to the init-ifupdown interfaces file is a
> solution. Running "touch /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-name-slot.rules" as
> suggested by the eudev Wiki (to force the interface name back eth0)
> seems to work too.

I didn't have the same issue, but thanks for pointing that out, sending 
a v2 later.
>
>    https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Eudev
>
> Is there a recommended migration path so that the primary ethernet
> interface is brought up automatically, as it was before?

Not as far as I'm concerned, its matter of deciding if we should go with 
the old naming scheme or the new one, unless it was already decided 
before, I'm assuming it would be the latter.
>
>> - libgudev is not provided by eudev as it was with udev before
>> - We can now drop usbutils_007 since usbutils_008 is now compatible
>>    also with eudev, and not only with systemd's udev
>> - Adds new eudev package to maintainers.inc
>>
>> The following changes since commit 23056103c949b498c23b47579e8dd57ce78e6ed9:
>>
>>    uclibc: Do not use immediate expansion operator (2016-02-22 20:42:48 +0000)
>>
>> are available in the git repository at:
>>
>>    git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky-contrib hsalejandro/eudev
>>    http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=hsalejandro/eudev
>>
>> Alejandro Hernandez (4):
>>    eudev: Replaces udev with eudev for compatibility when sysvinit on
>>      newer kernels
>>    libgudev: Fix for new eudev implementation
>>    usbutils: Fix for new eudev implementation
>>    maintainers.inc: Add new eudev package and change maintainership fore
>>      udev
>>
>>   meta-yocto/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc     |   2 +-
>>   meta/conf/distro/include/default-providers.inc     |   2 +-
>>   meta/recipes-bsp/usbutils/usbutils-008/iconv.patch |  41 --------
>>   meta/recipes-bsp/usbutils/usbutils/iconv.patch     |  29 +++---
>>   meta/recipes-bsp/usbutils/usbutils_007.bb          |  31 ------
>>   meta/recipes-bsp/usbutils/usbutils_008.bb          |   5 +-
>>   .../udev/{udev => eudev}/devfs-udev.rules          |   0
>>   meta/recipes-core/udev/{udev => eudev}/init        |   0
>>   meta/recipes-core/udev/{udev => eudev}/links.conf  |   0
>>   meta/recipes-core/udev/{udev => eudev}/local.rules |   0
>>   .../udev/{udev => eudev}/permissions.rules         |   0
>>   meta/recipes-core/udev/{udev => eudev}/run.rules   |   0
>>   meta/recipes-core/udev/{udev => eudev}/udev-cache  |   0
>>   .../udev/{udev => eudev}/udev-cache.default        |   0
>>   meta/recipes-core/udev/{udev => eudev}/udev.rules  |   0
>>   meta/recipes-core/udev/eudev_3.1.5.bb              |  83 +++++++++++++++
>>   meta/recipes-core/udev/udev.inc                    | 112 ---------------------
>>   ...yboard_force_release.sh-shell-script-path.patch |  35 -------
>>   ...-Add-stdint.h-as-it-was-removed-from-mtd-.patch |  29 ------
>>   ...c-Makefile.am-Check-for-input.h-and-input.patch |  52 ----------
>>   .../recipes-core/udev/udev/add-install-ptest.patch |  86 ----------------
>>   .../udev/udev/avoid-mouse-autosuspend.patch        |  25 -----
>>   .../udev/udev/fix_rule-syntax-regex-ptest.patch    |  58 -----------
>>   meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/run-ptest              |   5 -
>>   meta/recipes-core/udev/udev_182.bb                 |   9 --
>>   meta/recipes-gnome/libgudev/libgudev_230.bb        |   3 +-
>>   26 files changed, 102 insertions(+), 505 deletions(-)
>>   delete mode 100644 meta/recipes-bsp/usbutils/usbutils-008/iconv.patch
>>   delete mode 100644 meta/recipes-bsp/usbutils/usbutils_007.bb
>>   rename meta/recipes-core/udev/{udev => eudev}/devfs-udev.rules (100%)
>>   rename meta/recipes-core/udev/{udev => eudev}/init (100%)
>>   rename meta/recipes-core/udev/{udev => eudev}/links.conf (100%)
>>   rename meta/recipes-core/udev/{udev => eudev}/local.rules (100%)
>>   rename meta/recipes-core/udev/{udev => eudev}/permissions.rules (100%)
>>   rename meta/recipes-core/udev/{udev => eudev}/run.rules (100%)
>>   rename meta/recipes-core/udev/{udev => eudev}/udev-cache (100%)
>>   rename meta/recipes-core/udev/{udev => eudev}/udev-cache.default (100%)
>>   rename meta/recipes-core/udev/{udev => eudev}/udev.rules (100%)
>>   create mode 100644 meta/recipes-core/udev/eudev_3.1.5.bb
>>   delete mode 100644 meta/recipes-core/udev/udev.inc
>>   delete mode 100644 meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/0001-Fixing-keyboard_force_release.sh-shell-script-path.patch
>>   delete mode 100644 meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/0001-mtd_probe.h-Add-stdint.h-as-it-was-removed-from-mtd-.patch
>>   delete mode 100644 meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/0002-configure.ac-Makefile.am-Check-for-input.h-and-input.patch
>>   delete mode 100644 meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/add-install-ptest.patch
>>   delete mode 100644 meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/avoid-mouse-autosuspend.patch
>>   delete mode 100644 meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/fix_rule-syntax-regex-ptest.patch
>>   delete mode 100644 meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/run-ptest
>>   delete mode 100644 meta/recipes-core/udev/udev_182.bb
>>
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>>
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