On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 08:28:23AM +0000, Duncan wrote > That leaves those using a dev-manager other than udev in a current > installation who are depending on the current system set listing to bring > in module-init-tools. I believe busybox has it's own modutils as well, > doesn't it, so that eliminates them.
Would this require tweaking the virtual/dev-manager ebuild? Taking a quick glance at http://busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html it does have lsmod/modprobe/rmmod, but not modinfo. Are there any ebuilds or init scripts that use modprobe or rmmod? If so, the ebuild should at least have an ewarn message telling mdev users to create the necessary symlinks to modprobe/rmmod. Maybe even attempt to create the symlinks if they don't already exist. I'm not a programmer or developer, but I am running udev-less Gentoo using busybox's mdev. I've got a spare machine that I'm willing to use as a guinea-pig for testing mdev under the proposed setup. How difficult would it be to set up an mdev-based profile, already? -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
