[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] Add support for package-declared devices

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

 [I really should stop replying to this thread ;-)]
On Thursday 08 September 2011 10:18:14, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> >  AFAICS it does three things:
> > - make device nodes (mknod)
> > - change permissions (chmod)
> > - set ownership (chown)
> >
> > 
> >  So skeleton is not really the right term, as it only refers to the
> >mknod 
> >
> > function again.  (Although not-yet-existing files and directories are
> > created,  that's not usually the main purpose for files and
> > directories.)
> 
> In device_table.txt, it also creates the whole basic filesystem
> hierarchy, with folders (such as /dev) and files (such as /etc/shadow).
> So you will have to add mkdir and touch to your list. That is why is was
> going for skeleton,

 Both /dev and /etc/shadow are (usually) copied from fs/skeleton, 
device_table.txt only updates the permissions.  I guess the /dev and /etc 
lines in device_table.txt are a bit redundant...

 Regards,
 Arnout


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