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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S8nph-0002p8-4Z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 07:13:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 78F27E0A53; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 07:13:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD25CE09CA for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 07:12:48 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AokGAKU/KE9FpZ1f/2dsb2JhbACBX48mjVV5iHCeGYYZBJROhkuECQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.73,1,1325480400"; d="scan'208";a="168509270" Received: from 69-165-157-95.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([69.165.157.95]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 17 Mar 2012 03:12:47 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 17 Mar 2012 03:12:11 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 03:12:11 -0400 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Let's redesign the entire filesystem! Message-ID: <20120317071211.GA7989@waltdnes.org> References: <4F60E9C1.7050600@gentoo.org> <20120314210456.GB11179@kroah.com> <4F611E09.1040602@cs.stonybrook.edu> <20120314224916.GA12279@kroah.com> <4F61294B.9040101@cs.stonybrook.edu> <20120314233734.GA29474@kroah.com> <4F61E32C.2080305@gentoo.org> <4F62549B.8050407@cs.stonybrook.edu> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F62549B.8050407@cs.stonybrook.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 32a22e4f-8082-4b60-bf18-7c3743d56026 X-Archives-Hash: 9b4ed19616862e5519b058361ac0b4ec On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 04:44:11PM -0400, Richard Yao wrote > Busybox is installed as part of the system profile on amd64. You can > install mdev by doing this: > > ln -s /bin/busybox /sbin/mdev The official method is to build busybox with the "mdev" USE flag. That is the only way that virtual/dev-manager recognizes it, and doesn't try to pull in udev, instead. From the ebuild... RDEPEND="|| ( sys-fs/udev sys-apps/busybox[mdev] sys-fs/devfsd sys-fs/static-dev sys-freebsd/freebsd-sbin )" > There is documentation in the busybox GIT for how to use it: > > http://git.busybox.net/busybox/plain/docs/mdev.txt TOOT!!! (blowing my own horn). See http://www.waltdnes.org/mdev/ for instructions on replacing udev with mdev for simple Gentoo systems. Hopefully more info will start arriving, allowing more complex systems to work with mdev. -- Walter Dnes