On 04/27/2012 03:28 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 08:55 +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote: >> On 04/27/12 03:32, Adam Borowski wrote: >>> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 08:08:01PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >>>> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 02:03:17PM -0400, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >>>>> I believe Debian still supports running locally compiled kernels >>>>> which do not depend on udev, and that some setups do not require >>>>> udev either (not everyone use fibre channel). >>>> >>>> It is supported only in the sense that it is not yet impossible. >>>> >>>> Please don't ask anyone to spend time to avoid udev dependencies; >>>> hotplugging is normal and udev is the proper way to handle all >>>> devices the Linux kernel finds. >> >> udev is just the reference implementation. mdev [part of busybox] can do >> the same (modulo rules: it has a slightly simpler format that doesn't >> provide exactly the same features (yet)) > [...] > > Sure, for Linux in general you have other options like mdev. However, > Debian uses udev.
Debian installs udev by default, but as with other init systems it should not stop your from using whatever-you-like instead of udev. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f9d3b4f.8040...@bzed.de
