[oe] [meta-handheld][PATCH 2/3] udev: add bbappend and disable device cache as default.

[Paul Eggleton]

On Monday 17 October 2011 01:26:50 Andrea Adami wrote:
> * For some reasons when the cache is created root can still be ro
> * and as solution you would be obliged to add 'rw' to your commandline.
> * There are patches in openembedded-classic to correct this
> * (and those are still pending for meta-oe).
> * Until a solution is found disable the creation of the device cache on
> boot.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Adami <andrea.adami at gmail.com>
> ---
>  recipes-core/udev/udev/default      |    4 ++++
>  recipes-core/udev/udev_173.bbappend |    1 +
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 recipes-core/udev/udev/default
>  create mode 100644 recipes-core/udev/udev_173.bbappend
> 
> diff --git a/recipes-core/udev/udev/default b/recipes-core/udev/udev/default
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..ba2867e
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/recipes-core/udev/udev/default
> @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
> +# Default for /etc/init.d/udev
> +
> +# Uncomment this out to enable device cache
> +#DEVCACHE="/etc/dev.tar"
> diff --git a/recipes-core/udev/udev_173.bbappend
> b/recipes-core/udev/udev_173.bbappend new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..72d991c
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/recipes-core/udev/udev_173.bbappend
> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
> +FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/${PN}:"

I think this is going to cause problems for distros such as Angstrom that 
enable this layer without always using it. Can we just disable the dev cache 
for the machines in meta-handheld?

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre