On 05/04/2013 03:05 PM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > Long story short, we should: > 1) give up with cross compiler support in genkernel, which has been > anyway in a broken state for ages. Nobody is using it anyway. > 2) make possible to optionally use udev in the initramfs (compiling > just for it is a pita and the trend here [dracut and others do this] > is to copy udevd from the system) > 3) default to udev?
Uhm... sounds quite unpleasant and I'm really wondering why having udev as middle-man for storing userspace metadata. The netlink broadcast should be available to everybody for acting upon, using/extending it for such tasks isn't possible? lu
