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On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 13:32:09 +0100 |
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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 |
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> means coming back to 10 years ago, at least. |
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If you go back through the list archives you will find the enormous |
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thread that caused Walter to start down this road in the first place. |
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His efforts are an attempt to deal with the gigantic bloat-fest that |
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the udev devs seem to revel in. |
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Walter is doing fine work, he should be supported in this. |
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Alan McKinnnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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