On 07/02/2016 10:22, Daniel Golle wrote: > Hi! > > I recently bumped into eudev, a fork of systemd-udev 220 which doesn't > require all the rest of systemd. The gentoo folks came up with it as > many of them still use OpenRC or SystemV init. > It was easy to port it to OpenWrt by re-using and modifying the > existing udev packaging. See > https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/2354 > > However, there are some problems which I'd like to discuss: > * PROVIDES and CONFLICTS doesn't work well in opkg and proper support > for alternative packages (except for build-variants) is missing in > buildroot. Any idea on how this could be fixed? > * Why is udev-173 part of core? I can't see what actually depends on it > since udevtrigger is provided by procd for ages now. > * eudev and udev conflict also in terms of InstallDev providing the > same header filenames and consuming packages expect to find them > there. This means they cannot co-exist in the same buildroot without > overwriting each others staging files... > * We could just switch to eudev instead of the (unmaintained and > outdated) version of udev we currently got -- however, > * eudev got almost twice of the binary size of udev... > > The main reason why I'd like to have udev is persistent aliasing of > (hotpluggable) serial devices like wwan modems and input devices; udev > is required for libinput to build. > > Please share your ideas and opinions on the issues above and whatever > else comes to your mind when you think about udev and linux hotplug on > OpenWrt! > >
maybe i am missing the point but why would you want udev on your system in the first place ? > Cheers > > > Daniel > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel > _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel