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On 11/07/12 11:40 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 09:49:18AM -0400, Michael Mol wrote
>> Walter Dnes (very active over in gentoo-user) has put a lot of
>> work into testing and documenting mdev as an alternative for 
>> udev. There's been a good deal of success there, up to and
>> including it working with GNOME 2. The work's been documented on
>> the wiki: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev
> 
> I'm now testing automount under mdev.  No GUI required.  I hope to 
> have a wiki page up soon.
> 
> As for GNOME and KDE, they're trying to become OS's in their own 
> right.  What can I say?  There are a lot of alternative desktop 
> environments and window managers.  That's my target.
> 

Out of curiosity, since mdev is (i assume) more than complete enough
to handle mounting, would it be possible to initially start with mdev
and then hand over control to udev (if there was a need for udev, that
is) , to avoid initramfs with separate /usr ?

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