[yocto] eudev hwdb?

[Burton, Ross]

On 27 April 2016 at 09:48, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:

> Is there any way to not have both the hwdb.bin (which I assume
> is a binary version of the hardware databases) and /etc/udev/hwdb.d?
> Perhaps there is some way to only use one?
>
> Or maybe there is a better choice, such as mdev?  I'm not sure about
> this (no experience) but my system needs to handle plug&play devices
> which the current eudev does well.  It's just a huge "price" to pay.
>

You could not install hwdb at all, it's a recommends so you can
BAD_RECOMMENDS it away.  It's certainly possible to wipe away the source
files for hwdb if you don't care about extending them at runtime but nobody
has done that yet: a rootfs postproccess hook could delete it and confirm
that everything works fine.

Ross
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