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On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 06:28:08AM +0100, Steven J Long wrote |
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> <dberkholz> who's going to either "port" udev as necessary, or maintain an |
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> old version forever? |
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> <Chainsaw> I will keep an old version going until the end of time. |
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> <Chainsaw> dberkholz: My plan is to patch reasonable behaviour back into |
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> udev, and going with the upstream releases as long as it is feasible. |
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I use busybox's mdev, and it works fine for my simple system. See |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev The busybox web site is |
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http://busybox.net/ and the maintenance is handled by them. The mailing |
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list info is at http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox |
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> To confirm again, that this is about without initramfs: |
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> <dberkholz> sure i can. maintain old udev-XXX forever, put an elog in new |
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> udev that says "if you want separate /usr without initramfs, install old |
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> udev, mask new, or whatever" |
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systemd and udev are being merged into one tarball. For the "foreseeable |
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future", it will still build 2 separate binaries. What happens down the |
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road if/when it all becomes one combined binary? |
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> And again, I ask: if it were *not* about running udev without an |
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> initramfs, then why would anyone even be discussing the possibility |
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> of patching or forking? |
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Forking/patching udev would be a major undertaking. Maybe we'd be |
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better off making add-ons for mdev to provide missing udev functionality. |
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Note that busybox is intended for embedded systems, and they're not |
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going to add major additional functionality to the base code. That's |
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why I suggest optional add-ons for any additional functionality. |
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BTW, how would a non-programmer (at least not C programmer) like me |
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forward these ideas to the Gentoo Council? |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |