On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 13:32:09 +0100 Nicolas Sebrecht <nsebre...@piing.fr> wrote:
> The 03/01/12, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > (Come to think of it, has *any* distro ever attempted this... > > 'unconventional of going udev-free?) > > mdev is not an udev replacement. It's a very minimalist udev designed > for embedded systems and initramfs. These days, a full-featured system > require a dynamic /dev and AFAIK the only existing and up-to-date tool > for this job is udev. > > I don't think any other distro attempted to get free of udev as it > means coming back to 10 years ago, at least. > If you go back through the list archives you will find the enormous thread that caused Walter to start down this road in the first place. His efforts are an attempt to deal with the gigantic bloat-fest that the udev devs seem to revel in. Walter is doing fine work, he should be supported in this. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
