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On Jan 3, 2012 7:35 PM, "Nicolas Sebrecht" <nsebrecht@×××××.fr> wrote: |
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> The 03/01/12, Pandu Poluan wrote: |
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> > (Come to think of it, has *any* distro ever attempted this... |
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> > 'unconventional of going udev-free?) |
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> mdev is not an udev replacement. It's a very minimalist udev designed |
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> for embedded systems and initramfs. These days, a full-featured system |
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> require a dynamic /dev and AFAIK the only existing and up-to-date tool |
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> for this job is udev. |
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> I don't think any other distro attempted to get free of udev as it means |
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> coming back to 10 years ago, at least. |
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For desktops, I agree. |
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But I can see a use case for mdev completely replacing udev: servers and |
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virtual machines. |
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Servers, especially production ones, have a hardware change only once in |
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every two blue moons. They don't need all the bells and whistles of udev. |
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Even more so when you've gone the virtualized route. |
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Since servers are arguably where Linux shines the most, mdev should be |
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seriously considered as a udev replacement. |
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Rgds, |
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