Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

[Walter Dnes]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:25:11PM +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote
> On Thursday, September 15, 2011 01:43:17 PM Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s <caneko@×××××.com>
> wrote:
> > (This mail is to keep the guys un -user in the loop about -devel).
> >
> > OK, so Joost posted his proposal to -dev:
>
> <snipped brief discussion on gentoo-dev>
>
> The thread on gentoo-dev is not yet finished and I intend to try to get some
> more information. As I mentioned in my other email.

  I've asked on the busybox list, and one of the people there says he
does have a chrooted Gentoo running with mdev (a busybox tool) replacing
udev.  There were various other changes he had to make to get it
working, but it obviously can be done.  He's busy for the next couple of
weeks, but has offered (offline) to work on generalizing it to work in
more general cases.  Apparently, the mdev code is a small part of
busybox, so he figures it would be simplest to copy the code out of
busybox, and make a standalone mdev.  The busybox mdev doesn't have all
the features of udev, and busybox's developers will obviously want to
keep their code lean-and-mean.  That's why a standalone mdev seems to be
the way to go.

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>