[oe] [PATCH] udev 124: add cache invalidation logic on kernel change or its bootargs/cmdline

Koen Kooi k.kooi at student.utwente.nl
Thu Apr 16 13:04:39 UTC 2009


On 16-04-09 14:34, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko<denis at denix.org>  wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 08:54:04AM +0200, Holger Schurig wrote:
>>>> On 15-04-09 01:49, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
>>>>> +                 mv /tmp/uname /etc/uname
>>>>> +                 mv /tmp/cmdline /etc/cmdline
>>>>
>>>> I think we should put those in /etc/udev or /var/lib/udev if
>>>> udev will be the only consumer.
>>>
>>> +1, e.g.
>>>
>>> /etc/udev/saved.uname
>>> /etc/udev/saved.cmdline
>>
>> Good point, I'll be sending the update. Are there any other
>> comments/suggestions?
>
> It would be nice to, while on that, evaluate the possibility
> of updating udev; 0.141 fixes a serious security whole
> and even if most embedded systems usually runs as root,
> there're many that doesn't.

Also 141 will allow us to reduce the recipe to something like 'inherit 
autotools_stage' :)

regards,

Koen






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