Commit d36f64e8 authored by Maxime Ripard's avatar Maxime Ripard Committed by Peter Korsgaard
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doc: document <foo>_DEVICES / _PERMISSIONS 



Signed-off-by: default avatarMaxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
parent df8fa171

docs/manual/adding-packages-gentargets.txt

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@@ -38,7 +38,15 @@ system is based on hand-written Makefiles or shell scripts. 
24: 	$(INSTALL) -d -m 0755 $(TARGET_DIR)/etc/foo.d

25: endef

26:

27: $(eval $(call GENTARGETS))

27: define LIBFOO_DEVICES

28: 	/dev/foo  c  666  0  0  42  0  -  -  -

29: endef

30:

31: define LIBFOO_PERMISSIONS

32: 	/bin/foo  f  4755  0  0  -  -  -  -  -

33: endef

34:

35: $(eval $(call GENTARGETS))

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The Makefile begins on line 6 to 8 with metadata information: the
@@ -75,7 +83,7 @@ All these steps rely on the +$(@D)+ variable, which 
contains the directory where the source code of the package has been

extracted.



Finally, on line 27, we call the +GENTARGETS+ which

Finally, on line 35, we call the +GENTARGETS+ which

generates, according to the variables defined previously, all the

Makefile code necessary to make your package working.
@@ -188,6 +196,13 @@ information is (assuming the package name is +libfoo+) : 
  variables are executed to install the package into the target

  directory.



* +LIBFOO_DEVICES+ lists the device files to be created by Buildroot

  when using the static device table. The syntax to use is the

  makedevs one.



* +LIBFOO_PERMISSIONS+ lists the changes of permissions to be done at

  the end of the build process. The syntax is once again the makedevs one.



The recommended way to define these variables is to use the following

syntax: