From: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [RFC 0/6] mdev-only /dev management (without devtmpfs)
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 11:26:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55EFFB42.2050106@mind.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1441747734-18730-1-git-send-email-luca@lucaceresoli.net>
On 08-09-15 23:28, Luca Ceresoli wrote:
> There is one rough edge that I'd like to have comments about: variable
> naming. The new method implemented by this patchset is dynamic and uses
> mdev, so it should ba named BR2_ROOTFS_DEVICE_CREATION_DYNAMIC_MDEV and
> described in kconfig as "dynamic using mdev". But hey, that name and
> description are already used for the current "devtmpfs + mdev" method! So
> we might want to rename all variables to encompass the new use case in a
> clean way. Thid would also imply lagacy management etc.
Since we don't like legacy management :-) I'd propose to say that DYNAMIC
actually means DEVTMPFS. So the new option would be called
BR2_ROOTFS_DEVICE_CREATION_MDEV: it's not devtmpfs, and there's no need for the
explicit 'only' part.
What do you think?
Regards,
Arnout
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Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-08 21:28 [Buildroot] [RFC 0/6] mdev-only /dev management (without devtmpfs) Luca Ceresoli
2015-09-08 21:28 ` [Buildroot] [RFC 1/6] Move mounting /sys from fstab to inittab Luca Ceresoli
2015-09-09 9:12 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2015-09-08 21:28 ` [Buildroot] [RFC 2/6] system: clarify /dev management using devtmpfs + {mdev, eudev} Luca Ceresoli
2015-09-09 9:40 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2015-09-09 10:53 ` Luca Ceresoli
2015-09-09 10:54 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2015-09-08 21:28 ` [Buildroot] [RFC 3/6] system: add mdev-only /dev management (without devtmpfs) Luca Ceresoli
2015-09-09 9:21 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2015-09-09 12:29 ` Luca Ceresoli
2015-09-09 12:32 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2015-09-09 13:54 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-09-14 13:47 ` Luca Ceresoli
2015-09-14 22:23 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2015-09-15 22:35 ` Luca Ceresoli
2015-09-14 20:53 ` Peter Korsgaard
2015-09-14 21:34 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-09-14 21:38 ` Peter Korsgaard
2015-09-15 7:30 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-09-15 8:09 ` Peter Korsgaard
2015-09-15 9:41 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-09-15 12:01 ` Peter Korsgaard
2015-09-15 12:27 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2015-09-15 12:32 ` Peter Korsgaard
2015-09-18 16:37 ` Luca Ceresoli
2015-09-15 13:03 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-09-15 13:14 ` Peter Korsgaard
2015-09-15 22:34 ` Luca Ceresoli
2015-10-01 9:36 ` Luca Ceresoli
2015-10-01 10:03 ` Peter Korsgaard
2015-09-15 22:31 ` Luca Ceresoli
2015-09-16 7:32 ` Peter Korsgaard
2015-09-18 15:47 ` Luca Ceresoli
2015-09-09 9:34 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2015-09-09 11:23 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-09-09 11:29 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-09-09 20:33 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2015-09-14 16:07 ` Luca Ceresoli
2015-09-14 16:05 ` Luca Ceresoli
2015-09-14 19:34 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-09-14 20:19 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2015-09-15 22:07 ` Luca Ceresoli
2015-09-08 21:28 ` [Buildroot] [RFC 4/6] system: strip the initial /dev for mdev-only /dev management Luca Ceresoli
2015-09-08 21:28 ` [Buildroot] [RFC 5/6] docs/manual: document "Dynamic using mdev only" " Luca Ceresoli
2015-09-09 10:39 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2015-09-08 21:28 ` [Buildroot] [RFC 6/6] **** DO NOT COMMIT THIS **** ugly stuff to test mdev-only " Luca Ceresoli
2015-09-09 9:26 ` Arnout Vandecappelle [this message]
2015-09-09 11:30 ` [Buildroot] [RFC 0/6] mdev-only /dev management (without devtmpfs) Thomas Petazzoni
2015-09-14 21:03 ` Peter Korsgaard
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