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From: Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:24:53
Message-Id: CADqQcK4AtP6J2YLo3iJ1jNKZW-4RdvW4O6Z=o+Dbj355wxOHXA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr by Rich Freeman
1 On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Arun Raghavan <ford_prefect@g.o> wrote:
3 >> Does mdev support all the rules we have in /lib/udev/rules.d/? The
4 >> Internet is surprisingly mute on this subject, but a quick grep
5 >> through the busybox source doesn't turn up anything that suggests that
6 >> it might.
7 >
8 > I think the main use case for mdev is to do a one-time creation of
9 > typical device nodes with minimal use of resources.
10
11 In that case, you don't need a userspace daemon at all. Just use
12 devtmpfs. That'll use even lower resources.
13
14 --
15 ~Nirbheek Chauhan
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17 Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team