"Walter Dnes" <waltd...@waltdnes.org> writes: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 01:49:32AM +0300, Maxim Kammerer wrote >> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Richard Yao <r...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> > mdev would need to switch to the netlink hotplug interface. >> >> I think that's quite unlikely, since mdev is not a daemon. Perhaps by >> the time /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug is gone, mdev advocates will have >> settled on some early udev fork. [1] > > Do you realize this would effectively kill linux in the embedded > device area? Udev, even without the systemd code, is simply to large > for embedded devices.
But surely most embedded devices do not need hotplug functionality, they have a known, fixed, set of devices. So should static nodes in /dev/ not be sufficient?
