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

[Andrea Adami]

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net>wrote:

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> Op 02-11-11 22:00, Paul Eggleton schreef:
> > 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?
>
> Or get with the program and use udev 174 with systemd, no need for a device
> cache in that case!
>
> regards,
>
> Koen
>

Sure, this is the future...but for now oe-core doesn't implement systemd as
default.

Until then, I think we should have sane defaults allowing to build with
just oe-core + meta-oe + meta-handheld even without distro layers.

Regards

Andrea


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