A recently discussed on the mailing list:
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2016-February/154189.html
Our mdev configuration currently doesn't handle module loading. Fix that by:
- Telling mdev to run modprobe on hotplug events providing MODALIAS
- Adjust the init script to handle coldplug modalias events (E.G. modules
for which the devices were already present before mdev was added as the
hotplug handler). mdev -s should arguable handle this, but it doesn't.
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
It's also done in the kernel configuration, however users may be using
some other pre-built kernel and miss functionality like firmware
loading.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Four methods for the creation of device files in /dev are now
proposed:
- static method uses device table as before
- devtmpfs method enables this feature in kernel
- mdev method adds mdev starting script to the file system
and selects mdev itself for installation
- udev method selects udev for installation
All dynamic methods are based on devtmpfs, so one doesn't need to care
about /dev folder.
Signed-off-by: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
