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"Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@××××××××.org> writes: |
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> On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 01:49:32AM +0300, Maxim Kammerer wrote |
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>> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Richard Yao <ryao@g.o> wrote: |
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>> > mdev would need to switch to the netlink hotplug interface. |
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>> I think that's quite unlikely, since mdev is not a daemon. Perhaps by |
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>> the time /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug is gone, mdev advocates will have |
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>> settled on some early udev fork. [1] |
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> Do you realize this would effectively kill linux in the embedded |
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> device area? Udev, even without the systemd code, is simply to large |
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> for embedded devices. |
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But surely most embedded devices do not need hotplug functionality, they |
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have a known, fixed, set of devices. So should static nodes in /dev/ not |
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be sufficient? |
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