[oe] [RFC] remove mdev recipe(already in busybox)

[Otavio Salvador]

+1

Please go ahead and drop it :-)

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:11 AM, GNUtoo <GNUtoo at no-log.org> wrote:
> hi, Tom Rin said:
> "To follow up to myself, the 'mdev' package should just go away really.
> This particular bug is because 'mdev' has an empty mdev.conf while
> busybox's mdev does not, and it contains console/null/etc entries."
> in "Re: [oe] [PATCH] mdev: mdev.sh: permit serial console login and
> correct init runlevel"
> ( http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.openembedded/25296 )
> So should we remove mdev recipe and use busybox's mdev instead...if so
> all the recipe/distro that were using it must be updated.
> for intance the micro-base-image use it:
> IMAGE_DEV_MANAGER = "mdev"
> that should be replaced by:
> IMAGE_DEV_MANAGER = "busybox-mdev"
> A quick grep for IMAGE_DEV_MANAGER in the dev branch shows that only the
> micro-base-image use it...
>
> Does someone have an objection(for the mdev recipe removal)?
>
> By the way i sent that mail because there could have things that I
> didn't thought,people that could depend on .dev but use external
> recipes(I was thinking of thing like MokoMakefiles),or issues with other
> branches,But also because I was told to do so.
>
> Denis.
>
>
>
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