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| author | eric.le.bihan.dev@free.fr <eric.le.bihan.dev@free.fr> | 2014-02-07 14:21:35 +0100 |
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| committer | Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com> | 2014-02-12 22:14:45 +0100 |
| commit | 46dde29fbbf1450abb5584fb34b68d3bb24cb9d5 (patch) | |
| tree | a8bbad8d7c444909e8e7c419c9dadc7273724802 /docs/manual | |
| parent | 2c66e4429d23c6e293f9789cdef01b760399fccb (diff) | |
| download | buildroot-46dde29fbbf1450abb5584fb34b68d3bb24cb9d5.tar.gz buildroot-46dde29fbbf1450abb5584fb34b68d3bb24cb9d5.zip | |
manual: update /dev management section.
This patch updates the /dev management section in the manual with information
about eudev, which replaces udev.
Signed-off-by: Eric Le Bihan <eric.le.bihan.dev@free.fr>
Acked-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/manual')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/manual/configure.txt | 20 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/docs/manual/configure.txt b/docs/manual/configure.txt index 89df3d9aa6..9b8135a6a4 100644 --- a/docs/manual/configure.txt +++ b/docs/manual/configure.txt @@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ x86_64 target, you have to generate a cross-compilation toolchain with Buildroot or crosstool-NG. If you want to generate a custom toolchain for your project, that can -be used as an external toolchain in Buildroot, our recommandation is +be used as an external toolchain in Buildroot, our recommendation is definitely to build it with http://crosstool-ng.org[crosstool-NG]. We recommend to build the toolchain separately from Buildroot, and then _import_ it in Buildroot using the external toolchain backend. @@ -310,22 +310,24 @@ different solutions to handle the +/dev+ directory : about +mdev+ and the syntax of its configuration file, see http://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/docs/mdev.txt. - * The fourth solution is *Dynamic using udev*. This method also + * The fourth solution is *Dynamic using eudev*. This method also relies on the _devtmpfs_ virtual filesystem detailed above, but - adds the +udev+ userspace daemon on top of it. +udev+ is a daemon + adds the +eudev+ userspace daemon on top of it. +eudev+ is a daemon that runs in the background, and gets called by the kernel when a device gets added or removed from the system. It is a more - heavyweight solution than +mdev+, but provides higher flexibility - and is sometimes mandatory for some system components (systemd for - example). +udev+ is the mechanism used in most desktop Linux - distributions. For more details about +udev+, see - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udev. + heavyweight solution than +mdev+, but provides higher flexibility. + +eudev+ is a standalone version of +udev+, the original userspace + daemon used in most desktop Linux distributions, which is now part + of Systemd. For more details, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udev. -The Buildroot developers recommandation is to start with the *Dynamic +The Buildroot developers recommendation is to start with the *Dynamic using devtmpfs only* solution, until you have the need for userspace to be notified when devices are added/removed, or if firmwares are needed, in which case *Dynamic using mdev* is usually a good solution. +Note that if +systemd+ is chosen as init system, /dev management will +be performed by the +udev+ program provided by +systemd+. + init system ~~~~~~~~~~~ |
