@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ different solutions to handle the +/dev+ directory :
responsibility to enable those two options (if you fail to do so,
your Buildroot system will not boot).
- * The third solution is *Dynamic using mdev*. This method also relies
+ * The third solution is *Dynamic using devtmpfs + mdev*. This method also relies
on the _devtmpfs_ virtual filesystem detailed above (so the
requirement to have +CONFIG_DEVTMPFS+ and +CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT+
enabled in the kernel configuration still apply), but adds the
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ different solutions to handle the +/dev+ directory :
about +mdev+ and the syntax of its configuration file, see
http://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/docs/mdev.txt.
- * The fourth solution is *Dynamic using eudev*. This method also
+ * The fourth solution is *Dynamic using devtmpfs + eudev*. This method also
relies on the _devtmpfs_ virtual filesystem detailed above, but
adds the +eudev+ userspace daemon on top of it. +eudev+ is a daemon
that runs in the background, and gets called by the kernel when a
@@ -327,7 +327,8 @@ different solutions to handle the +/dev+ directory :
The Buildroot developers recommendation is to start with the *Dynamic
using devtmpfs only* solution, until you have the need for userspace
to be notified when devices are added/removed, or if firmwares are
-needed, in which case *Dynamic using mdev* is usually a good solution.
+needed, in which case *Dynamic using devtmpfs + mdev* is usually a
+good solution.
Note that if +systemd+ is chosen as init system, /dev management will
be performed by the +udev+ program provided by +systemd+.
@@ -110,11 +110,11 @@ config BR2_ROOTFS_DEVICE_CREATION_DYNAMIC_DEVTMPFS
bool "Dynamic using devtmpfs only"
config BR2_ROOTFS_DEVICE_CREATION_DYNAMIC_MDEV
- bool "Dynamic using mdev"
+ bool "Dynamic using devtmpfs + mdev"
select BR2_PACKAGE_BUSYBOX
config BR2_ROOTFS_DEVICE_CREATION_DYNAMIC_EUDEV
- bool "Dynamic using eudev"
+ bool "Dynamic using devtmpfs + eudev"
depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR
depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS
depends on BR2_USE_MMU # eudev