Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [RFC] replace outdated udev by eudev?

2016-02-07 Thread Daniel Golle
Hi John, On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 11:33:00AM +0100, John Crispin wrote: > >> which brings us back to my second question, why not add these features > >> to procd ? my experience is that these features can be implemented in > >> 100 lines +/- > > > > I agree that I'd be quite easy to sort-out the p

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [RFC] replace outdated udev by eudev?

2016-02-07 Thread John Crispin
On 07/02/2016 11:29, Daniel Golle wrote: > Hi John, > > On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 11:03:16AM +0100, John Crispin wrote: maybe i am missing the point but why would you want udev on your system in the first place ? >>> >>> There are situations when udev is currently the only way, such are:

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [RFC] replace outdated udev by eudev?

2016-02-07 Thread Daniel Golle
Hi John, On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 11:03:16AM +0100, John Crispin wrote: > >> maybe i am missing the point but why would you want udev on your system > >> in the first place ? > > > > There are situations when udev is currently the only way, such are: > > * more than one 3g/wwan/usb-serial device a

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [RFC] replace outdated udev by eudev?

2016-02-07 Thread John Crispin
On 07/02/2016 10:53, Daniel Golle wrote: > Hi John! > > On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 10:28:25AM +0100, John Crispin wrote: >> maybe i am missing the point but why would you want udev on your system >> in the first place ? > > There are situations when udev is currently the only way, such are: > * mo

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [RFC] replace outdated udev by eudev?

2016-02-07 Thread Daniel Golle
Hi John! On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 10:28:25AM +0100, John Crispin wrote: > maybe i am missing the point but why would you want udev on your system > in the first place ? There are situations when udev is currently the only way, such are: * more than one 3g/wwan/usb-serial device and the need to dif

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [RFC] replace outdated udev by eudev?

2016-02-07 Thread John Crispin
On 07/02/2016 10:22, Daniel Golle wrote: > The main reason why I'd like to have udev is persistent aliasing of > (hotpluggable) serial devices like wwan modems and input devices; udev > is required for libinput to build. why dont we just add this to the procd code ? _

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [RFC] replace outdated udev by eudev?

2016-02-07 Thread Felix Fietkau
On 2016-02-07 10:22, Daniel Golle wrote: > Hi! > > I recently bumped into eudev, a fork of systemd-udev 220 which doesn't > require all the rest of systemd. The gentoo folks came up with it as > many of them still use OpenRC or SystemV init. > It was easy to port it to OpenWrt by re-using and modi

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [RFC] replace outdated udev by eudev?

2016-02-07 Thread John Crispin
On 07/02/2016 10:22, Daniel Golle wrote: > Hi! > > I recently bumped into eudev, a fork of systemd-udev 220 which doesn't > require all the rest of systemd. The gentoo folks came up with it as > many of them still use OpenRC or SystemV init. > It was easy to port it to OpenWrt by re-using and mo

[OpenWrt-Devel] [RFC] replace outdated udev by eudev?

2016-02-07 Thread Daniel Golle
Hi! I recently bumped into eudev, a fork of systemd-udev 220 which doesn't require all the rest of systemd. The gentoo folks came up with it as many of them still use OpenRC or SystemV init. It was easy to port it to OpenWrt by re-using and modifying the existing udev packaging. See https://github