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From: Sylvain Alain <d2racing911@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev <-> mdev
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 05:36:30
Message-Id: CACR_K2uqPACAxFg_c59OY3SYAWpUYf0CEECrQAnstg_3tWAiWA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev <-> mdev by William Hubbs
1 Hi all, about the Mdev stuff, Slashbeast from Funtoo.org started that
2 project a while ago.
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4 https://github.com/slashbeast/mdev-like-a-boss
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6 I think that it's actually working pretty good on his box.
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8 Some Coredevs from Funtoo are actually running with that stuff.
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10 Sylvain
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12 2012/7/13 William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
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14 > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 08:13:43PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
15 > > On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 01:49:32AM +0300, Maxim Kammerer wrote
16 > > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Richard Yao <ryao@g.o> wrote:
17 > > > > mdev would need to switch to the netlink hotplug interface.
18 > > >
19 > > > I think that's quite unlikely, since mdev is not a daemon. Perhaps by
20 > > > the time /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug is gone, mdev advocates will have
21 > > > settled on some early udev fork. [1]
22 > >
23 > > Do you realize this would effectively kill linux in the embedded
24 > > device area? Udev, even without the systemd code, is simply to large
25 > > for embedded devices.
26 >
27 > What about using devtmpfs alone?
28 >
29 > William
30 >
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34 --
35 Salut
36 alp
37 Sylvain

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