On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Sylvain Alain <d2racing...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, about the Mdev stuff, Slashbeast from Funtoo.org started that
> project a while ago.
>
> https://github.com/slashbeast/mdev-like-a-boss
>
> I think that it's actually working pretty good on his box.
>
> Some Coredevs from Funtoo are actually running with that stuff.
I don't think anybody has ever suggested that it's not possible to run
mdev instead of udev: as Walter has proved, it is indeed possible.
The question Olivier and William are making is (if I understand
correctly) if you don't need the features of udev, then why not use
only devtmpfs. I think everyone agrees that mdev doesn't have (and
probably never will nor want) all the features that udev has.
Seeing all the trouble some people have taken to make their systems
work with mdev just to avoid having to use an initramfs, I really
wonder how much effort it would have taken the simple task of learning
one step more when updating kernels and switch to use an initramfs.
Then again, everyone is entitled to work in the features (or
anti-features) they want. It is FLOSS after all.
Just the 0.02 ${CURRENCY} of a happy udev/systemd user (I'm really
happy the merged the two project trees).
Regards.
--
Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
