Hi, As you might know, Alpine Linux uses busybox and uclibc as the foundation, you can then add as much bloat as you want. One of the things you can do is replace mdev with udev so you get hotplugging of disks (typically USB) and hotplugging of keyboards, mouse etc, working in xorg.
This works pretty good. For routers, servers (our primary target) you normally don't need udev. Some things, like things like xen needs it though. I have got a new challenge with udev. Since version 176 devtmpfs is *required* in kernel[1]. As I understand this will not work very well with mdev, our primary /dev handler. Unfortunally, if you want/need hotplugging in xorg today you don't have any choices. I wonder if it would be difficult to add devtmpfs support to mdev? As I understand, mdev will no longer need do mknod, but will only need to set permissions and create symlinks. Maybe also remove device nodes. I could probably look at how to do it but I will have my hands full with other stuff the nearest week(s). I am open to other ideas too. Thanks! -- Natanael Copa [1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/hotplug/udev.git;a=blob_plain;f=NEWS;hb=HEAD _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
