On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 10:54:10PM -0500, Michael Mol wrote > > I don't remember if Richard is on the -user list or not. I've no doubt > he'd be happy to have your assistance; you put in a lot of work > getting mdev to work for your purposes. (Whatever happened with that, > anyway? Or am I getting the various walts in here mixed up?)
The Gentoo Wiki pages are at... https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev/Automount_USB I don't think I can claim responsibility for Richard Yao's decision (along with others) to fork udev. I was one of the more visible malcontents here on the user list, but there were other factors. For many people here, "the udev controversy" means either moving /usr to /, or booting with initramd. If that had been it, the fork might've never materialized. The current systemd-udev team managed to piss off a lot of people. - people like me who didn't want to repartition their hard drives or go to initramd, just because Lennart declared separate /usr "broken" - people who had device drivers break, or at least hang for 30 or 60 seconds at bootup, just because Lennart declared the old way of loading firmware "broken" - people who may not have been affected by the above, but were afraid of Lennart's stated desire to roll udev completely into systemd and thereby make systemd mandatory in linux - and for good measure, throw in people who had problems with Lennart's gratuitous sound daemon (pulseaudio) or gratutious network daemon (avahi) whose primary function seems to be to auto-config link-local addresses. And let's not forget the brouhaha over Poettering's and Seiver's binary-syslog-with-undocumented-format idea http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/1733236/secure-syslog-replacement-proposed Lennart Poettering (and to a lesser extent Sievers) has pissed off a lot of people (users, sysadmins, and developers). The situation resembles the Xfree86 ==> Xorg revolt. Hopefully, the end result will be similar. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> We are apparently better off trying to avoid udev like the plague. Linus Torvalds; 2012/10/03 https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/3/349
