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 1SpJcG-00066Y-Up for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:39:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D5BFAE0525; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:39:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1401BE05F9 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:37:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.145] (CPE002401f30b73-CM001cea3ddad8.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [99.240.69.152]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: axs) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 43E4C6435D for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:37:37 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4FFED31D.9010505@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:37:33 -0400 From: Ian Stakenvicius User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.5) Gecko/20120625 Thunderbird/10.0.5 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] udev <-> mdev References: <20120710171800.493a7c4c@pomiocik.lan> <4FFC813B.7090501@gentoo.org> <20120711091510.52b44e08@pomiocik.lan> <4FFD7949.4000204@gentoo.org> <20120712034036.GA2439@waltdnes.org> In-Reply-To: <20120712034036.GA2439@waltdnes.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8c3b7111-5bc1-41d7-8124-cf73e4a8ba0c X-Archives-Hash: e230fe0c586f8aabb329307a84743eeb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 11/07/12 11:40 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 09:49:18AM -0400, Michael Mol wrote >> Walter Dnes (very active over in gentoo-user) has put a lot of >> work into testing and documenting mdev as an alternative for >> udev. There's been a good deal of success there, up to and >> including it working with GNOME 2. The work's been documented on >> the wiki: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev > > I'm now testing automount under mdev. No GUI required. I hope to > have a wiki page up soon. > > As for GNOME and KDE, they're trying to become OS's in their own > right. What can I say? There are a lot of alternative desktop > environments and window managers. That's my target. > Out of curiosity, since mdev is (i assume) more than complete enough to handle mounting, would it be possible to initially start with mdev and then hand over control to udev (if there was a need for udev, that is) , to avoid initramfs with separate /usr ? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAk/+0x0ACgkQ2ugaI38ACPB1zwD/UTRcKHG91/q9RyovsvChaPWE voF+oOAl5mE6A6hoN5UA/12KAC5XHModBZqNkWYuMqpB2q67t4fWHhp/w5lL7u7Z =3uUp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----