On Tue, 2014-04-01 at 18:44 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote: > On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 11:11 +0000, Matthieu CRAPET wrote: > > > Setting IMAGE_DEVICE_TABLE or IMAGE_DEVICE_TABLES to empty string in > > an image recipe works (makedevs is not called) > > > > > > > > Should be we drop USE_DEVFS variable (meta/classes/image.bbclass) or > > (re)add check in meta/lib/oe/rootfs.py? > > > Having just tripped over this myself, I think we should re-add the > check. I was going to post a reply to the original patch submission > email but for some reason I can't find it in either my inbox or the > web archive.
Also note that the default for USE_DEVFS was (and is) 1, so the lack of this check is actually causing a difference in the default behaviour. If there's no appetite for reinstating the USE_DEVFS mechanism per se then it seems like it would be a good idea to make the default IMAGE_DEVICE_TABLE be blank in order to restore the previous default of no /dev in the rootfs. At present you get a somewhat arbitrary-seeming smattering of devices from meta/files/device_table-minimal.txt, including such anachronisms as /dev/ttySA0 and /dev/apm_bios. It's hard to imagine that anybody actually wants this stuff in their rootfs in this day and age. p.
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