[yocto] eudev hwdb?

[Gary Thomas]

On 2016-04-27 10:59, Burton, Ross wrote:
>
> On 27 April 2016 at 09:48, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com <mailto: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.

Can you explain a bit more? - BAD_RECOMMENDS doesn't seem to be documented.

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