Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: "Morgan
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-embedded] udev
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:56:08
Message-Id: F23B2C80E3825F47B93655363249D0570C7868@0695-its-exmp01.us.saic.com
1 That is exacctly what I was looking for. Thank you very much. The problem
2 with a swiss-army knife is sometimes it is hard to figure out what all tools
3 are included.
4
5 Austin
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7
8 -----Original Message-----
9 From: gentoo-embedded+bounces-919-AUSTIN.D.MORGAN=saic.com@g.o on
10 behalf of Ned Ludd
11 Sent: Tue 6/20/2006 4:27 PM
12 To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
13 Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] udev
14
15 On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 23:14 +0200, Natanael Copa wrote:
16 > On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 14:00 -0700, Morgan, Austin D. wrote:
17 > > Is anyone useing udev in their embedded systems? If not what has become
18 the
19 > > defacto standard for filling /dev? I hate to manually create all the
20 nodes
21 > > although it is probably the most efficient use of space.
22 >
23 > I am using udev. When I get time I will look at how to replace it with
24 > busybox's mdev.
25
26 mdev is the route to go for dynamic device nod creation for
27 embedded/busybox 2.6 based systems. but be sure you still have
28 the base nods urandom,zero,stdin,stdout,stderr,null,ttyS0 there anyway.
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30 Example conf used when I initially slapped the conf logic together.
31 Not sure how much Rob changed it however from where I left off.
32 I think he only extended on it allow it to shell out etc..
33 http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/misc/mdev.conf
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37 Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
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