Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Barry Schwartz <chemoelectric@×××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Please get me straight about sysvinit vs. systemd, udev vs eudev vs mdev, virtuals and other things...
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 18:36:30
Message-Id: 20140303183623.GB10870@crud
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Please get me straight about sysvinit vs. systemd, udev vs eudev vs mdev, virtuals and other things... by "Canek Peláez Valdés"
1 Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> skribis:
2 > On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Frank Peters <frank.peters@×××××××.net> wrote:
3 > > Manually creating a /dev tree that perfectly reflects ones own system
4 > > is rather trivial. That's how Linux used to be and that's how Linux,
5 > > for the most part, still is. There is, or at least should be, no need
6 > > for udev or any substitute for udev.
7 >
8 > If you want to create a /dev tree for a computer that never gets new
9 > hardware connected via USB, bluetooth, or another bus, yeah, it's
10 > pretty trivial.
11
12 What’s hard? You create nodes for those devices. If you have a lot of
13 devices, you create more nodes. With a script, you can create enough
14 nodes to wrap the earth a few times over. All udev does is create and
15 destroy nodes according to an unfathomable set of rules that changes
16 all the time.

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