From: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [RFC 2/6] system: clarify /dev management using devtmpfs + {mdev, eudev}
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 12:53:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55F00FA4.1040307@lucaceresoli.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55EFFE90.8090200@mind.be>
Dear Arnout,
thanks for you review.
Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> On 08-09-15 23:28, Luca Ceresoli wrote:
>> We're going to introduce /dev management with mdev only (no devtmpfs),
>> which will be called "Dynamic using mdev only".
>>
>> In preparation to that addition, clarify the current /dev managements
>> systems which use devtmpfs with an additional tool. Otherwise
>> "Dynamic using mdev" and "Dynamic using mdev only" wight look quite
>> undistinguishable to mortals...
>
> I would squash the change to the manual with patch 5/6 and squash the changes
> to the Config.in prompts into patch 3/6, since these changes are related.
Well, to be picky about bisectability, the changes in this patch should
stay together. Otherwise at some commit we'd have "Dynamic using
devtmpfs + mdev" in kconfig but "Dynamic using mdev" in the docs.
>
> But the updated text looks good to me, so:
> Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
>
>
> Oh, perhaps you could add a brief help text to the choice options? You can more
> or less copy and paste the text from the manual. If you do add help text, do it
> as a separate patch at the end of the series so it doesn't have to be updated
> again after the introduction of mdev-only.
Good idea, I'll do it in the next iteration.
--
Luca
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-09 10:53 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
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 ` [Buildroot] [RFC 0/6] mdev-only /dev management (without devtmpfs) Arnout Vandecappelle
2015-09-09 11:30 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-09-14 21:03 ` Peter Korsgaard
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