On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Thomas Bächler <[email protected]> wrote: > Last time I checked, you could use mkinitcpio without udev in some > simple cases (especially since we started supporting devtmpfs, as the > basic devices nodes are created by the kernel and you don't need the > stupid device name parsing logic).
[...] > What makes you think mkinitcpio depends on udev? You are right. What I meant was simply that it has depends=(udev). It is of course possible to not include the udev hook (in the vast majority of cases there is no point in including udev). That said, this only holds if you use devtmpfs. /dev on tmpfs used to be possible with the udev hook, but now it is not possible at all. -t
