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From: Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev <-> mdev
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 00:41:19
Message-Id: CA+czFiCPURiJ6EkBZGbVXi23Uof0ARfH1uvgy1cdwWstBnfeMA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev <-> mdev by Walter Dnes
1 On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
2 > On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 01:49:32AM +0300, Maxim Kammerer wrote
3 >> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Richard Yao <ryao@g.o> wrote:
4 >> > mdev would need to switch to the netlink hotplug interface.
5 >>
6 >> I think that's quite unlikely, since mdev is not a daemon. Perhaps by
7 >> the time /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug is gone, mdev advocates will have
8 >> settled on some early udev fork. [1]
9 >
10 > Do you realize this would effectively kill linux in the embedded
11 > device area? Udev, even without the systemd code, is simply to large
12 > for embedded devices.
13
14 I'll venture a guess the solution will be to create a shim daemon
15 which turns around and launches udev.
16
17 --
18 :wq

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev <-> mdev Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>