Consider dropping sysfs hotplug support

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
linux
Domain
build-system, operating-systems

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Review commit 2a756df2539930eeff78c6c41a33cc9d569d55ee and the BusyBox configuration, then check whether CONFIG_FEATURE_MDEV_DAEMON works across all supported boards. Done means mdev daemon mode works on every board and the sysfs hotplug support is removed.

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If we can make mdev daemon mode work in all the boards, we don't need to keep the sysfs hotplug support. At the moment, we are supporting both ways, see https://github.com/dls-controls/rootfs/commit/2a756df2539930eeff78c6c41a33cc9d569d55ee.
The parameter in busybox config required is CONFIG_FEATURE_MDEV_DAEMON.

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