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Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] udev
From: Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@gmail.com>
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On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 17:27 -0400, Ned Ludd wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 23:14 +0200, Natanael Copa wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 14:00 -0700, Morgan, Austin D. wrote:
> > > Is anyone useing udev in their embedded systems?  If not what has become the
> > > defacto standard for filling /dev?  I hate to manually create all the nodes
> > > although it is probably the most efficient use of space.
> >
> > I am using udev. When I get time I will look at how to replace it with
> > busybox's mdev.
> 
> mdev is the route to go for dynamic device nod creation for
> embedded/busybox 2.6 based systems. but be sure you still have
> the base nods urandom,zero,stdin,stdout,stderr,null,ttyS0 there anyway.

I needed those before udev got started to so thats no difference.

> Example conf used when I initially slapped the conf logic together.
> Not sure how much Rob changed it however from where I left off.
> I think he only extended on it allow it to shell out etc..
> http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/misc/mdev.conf

Thank you very much! I really appreciated that one.

How does it work with hotplugging? I currently use:

echo /sbin/udevsend > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug

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Natanael Copa

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