From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1Spr45-0007YZ-MJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 01:22:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3574CE077E; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 01:22:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D91AE06FC for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 01:21:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (modemcable022.19-19-135.mc.videotron.ca [135.19.19.22]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: tester) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 954F71B413C for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 01:21:18 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1342228874.18313.20.camel@TesterTop4> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev <-> mdev From: Olivier =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Cr=EAte?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:21:14 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20120714011016.GA6930@waltdnes.org> References: <20120712034036.GA2439@waltdnes.org> <4FFED31D.9010505@gentoo.org> <20120712200741.GB3723@waltdnes.org> <20120712222931.GA3044@linux1> <20120713200449.GA6292@waltdnes.org> <50008143.3050708@gentoo.org> <20120714001343.GA6879@waltdnes.org> <20120714011016.GA6930@waltdnes.org> Organization: Gentoo Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-QkBZbWBQMD3vwz+K0zaY" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.4.3 (3.4.3-1.fc17) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Archives-Salt: 26156b85-50d0-485e-8c60-4fb44dcc2fad X-Archives-Hash: 68ce2b0090f71d6fafba1c41641223d0 --=-QkBZbWBQMD3vwz+K0zaY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 21:10 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 08:40:20PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote >=20 > > I'll venture a guess the solution will be to create a shim daemon > > which turns around and launches udev. >=20 > A quicker-and-dirtier solution would be to create a shim daemon that > runs under the the name "udev", and passes all calls to /sbin/mdev. Seriously, mdev is a just a bad and now useless hack, it does nothing more than using devtmpfs. You do not need udev for a very simple system. If you system is a bit more complicated, than udev is what you want. It works fine on millions of shipping devices. And on any new embedded platform, one should seriously think about using systemd too. It is very lean, replaces most of the giant, unmaintainable shellscripts that you find in many devices with smaller compiled code, and was designed to be a good fit for embedded devices. --=20 Olivier Cr=C3=AAte tester@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer --=-QkBZbWBQMD3vwz+K0zaY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAlAAyYsACgkQHTiOWk7ZoruN4QCfVvw5e1r8aYdrfMy9S/JGBv7h KqEAn2zHONvmRmIiNbspTyGOR79ZYRG7 =UKD2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-QkBZbWBQMD3vwz+K0zaY--