On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Arun Raghavan <ford_pref...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> Does mdev support all the rules we have in /lib/udev/rules.d/? The >> Internet is surprisingly mute on this subject, but a quick grep >> through the busybox source doesn't turn up anything that suggests that >> it might. > > I think the main use case for mdev is to do a one-time creation of > typical device nodes with minimal use of resources.
In that case, you don't need a userspace daemon at all. Just use devtmpfs. That'll use even lower resources. -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team