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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:44:49
Message-Id: 20120105094312.02a82a80@rohan.example.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3 by pk
1 On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:30:52 +0100
2 pk <peterk2@××××××××.se> wrote:
3
4 > > On my notebooks and test/development VMs, that's different. Those
5 > > need udev.
6 >
7 > Why does it need udev specifically? Just curious... if there's a
8 > technical need for something else than /dev population (and possible
9 > configuration of devices, i.e. tell the kernel what bits needs to be
10 > switched)?
11
12 Simply because they are typical notebooks and VMs :-)
13
14 I fiddle around a lot with the hardware on those and udev deals with
15 that nicely considering udev is designed to deal with that nicely.
16
17 Becoming rather lazy in my old age is getting to be a factor too
18
19 --
20 Alan McKinnnon
21 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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