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

[Andrea Adami]

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Andrea Adami <andrea.adami at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
>


Oh, I forgot to say that's unfortunate oe-core is still on udev_164.
Probably they have been scared by the note "# udev 169 and up require
kernel 2.6.36 for ARM:"

Is this still a problem? Maybe we should insist on the oe-core list and try
to unify the recipes.

Regards

Andrea