Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 3/4] busybox: Run mdev as daemon

2020-12-18 Thread Khem Raj
On 12/17/20 10:07 PM, Andre McCurdy wrote: On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 7:52 PM Khem Raj wrote: On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 3:59 PM Andre McCurdy wrote: On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 2:54 PM Khem Raj wrote: When busybox is used for device management, kernel needs to support older/obsolete mechanism v

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 3/4] busybox: Run mdev as daemon

2020-12-17 Thread Andre McCurdy
On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 7:52 PM Khem Raj wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 3:59 PM Andre McCurdy wrote: > > > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 2:54 PM Khem Raj wrote: > > > > > > When busybox is used for device management, kernel needs to support > > > older/obsolete mechanism via CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 3/4] busybox: Run mdev as daemon

2020-12-17 Thread Khem Raj
On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 3:59 PM Andre McCurdy wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 2:54 PM Khem Raj wrote: > > > > When busybox is used for device management, kernel needs to support > > older/obsolete mechanism via CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER and > > CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH to enable /proc/sys/kernel/h

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 3/4] busybox: Run mdev as daemon

2020-12-17 Thread Christopher Larson
Afaik, running a daemon in foreground mode and instructing start-stop-daemon to background it is common practice if the daemon doesn’t support writing a pidfile itself, so start-stop-daemon can handle it itself. Without using foregrounded process + -b, it wouldn’t know the resulting process id.

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 3/4] busybox: Run mdev as daemon

2020-12-17 Thread Andre McCurdy
On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 2:54 PM Khem Raj wrote: > > When busybox is used for device management, kernel needs to support > older/obsolete mechanism via CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER and > CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH to enable /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug but this > would require kernel defconfig change and will a

[OE-core] [PATCH 3/4] busybox: Run mdev as daemon

2020-12-17 Thread Khem Raj
When busybox is used for device management, kernel needs to support older/obsolete mechanism via CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER and CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH to enable /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug but this would require kernel defconfig change and will always be needed when mdev is used, intead run it in daemon