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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev <-> mdev
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 11:33:05
Message-Id: 50151F28.2050406@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev <-> mdev by "Olivier CrĂȘte"
1 On 07/14/2012 03:21 AM, Olivier CrĂȘte wrote:
2 > Seriously, mdev is a just a bad and now useless hack, it does nothing
3 > more than using devtmpfs. You do not need udev for a very simple system.
4 > If you system is a bit more complicated, than udev is what you want. It
5 > works fine on millions of shipping devices.
6 >
7 > And on any new embedded platform, one should seriously think about using
8 > systemd too. It is very lean, replaces most of the giant, unmaintainable
9 > shellscripts that you find in many devices with smaller compiled code,
10 > and was designed to be a good fit for embedded devices.
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12 Last time I looked at systemd it was anything that lean.
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14 Obviously you can say that if you already need dbus and glib and ...
15 ${systemd_deplist} it doesn't count.
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17 Likewise if you are already using busybox it comes with a quite rich shell.
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19 Most depends on what you consider embedded.
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21 lu
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25 Luca Barbato
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27 http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero