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 1SQQBp-0004G4-3K for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 May 2012 21:37:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 68342E0730; Fri, 4 May 2012 21:37:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport-out.teksavvy.com (ironport-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.143.162]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1608E05DB for ; Fri, 4 May 2012 21:36:23 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApUIACxOgk/O+K4d/2dsb2JhbABDuCMDgQyBCIIJAQEEATocKAsLNBIUJTeICQW2MothgVWCQWMEjW+HfIYCiFiBXYMD X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,391,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="178413312" Received: from 206-248-174-29.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([206.248.174.29]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 04 May 2012 17:36:22 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 04 May 2012 17:35:46 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 17:35:46 -0400 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Chromium bundled code Message-ID: <20120504213546.GA8823@waltdnes.org> References: <4F9E44D0.70002@linx.net> <201205031918.48928.vapier@gentoo.org> <4FA32795.6000809@gentoo.org> <201205032122.12231.vapier@gentoo.org> 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: <201205032122.12231.vapier@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 35a7db5e-1631-4e5a-a7a0-b53185b357e3 X-Archives-Hash: 158b81df49a7800d3a759ce01b220857 On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 09:22:11PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote > we would have to make mdev available as a sep package then ... don't > want busybox itself linking against anything beyond the C library. Busybox, including its mdev functionality, is targetted at small and embedded systems. I don't think that'll change, at least I hope it doesn't. What could work is a shim or compatability layer that gets called, and pre-processes requests and forwards them to mdev. -- Walter Dnes