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 1SpqQB-0002Tj-O3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 00:41:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 35898E06F9; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 00:41:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FC59E0653 for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 00:40:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkwj4 with SMTP id j4so3370810bkw.40 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:40:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=XySFAEuSryvgJCuvntpl2RqmDdxTpnbGnU3ruOUpDbQ=; b=wYVC9BIY8HRzklH7O2p3iQ9URDtdDRJjjKbvj0QSUP+izbSIf4jBrdFNJNi00LJjhX A8ITvlQ629vh4B74IL/BLmyMg3IR/pcacrGncJ8XGh65SPpEcMbviNrBtGQcQzklhy7M NfID87jw/u+iE7X0xWXNXXF780yIGZHOlGmjPsj8/q9cDgUl5BUwKEOh1BlyuvcUBjiS BBXkmbhz1JYy/oGm3YHuhtRmc0SQRC1eXtXaagoeQPrIDMqrpbDdPpcypV4mP+mVCpog 1qvin+N8u14ohHNJjb7I68roTM0a9O0DZAH0LQIOji+GoCsfEO++cyBnKFT8IZapAmjY 5bhQ== 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 Received: by 10.204.157.156 with SMTP id b28mr1961077bkx.27.1342226420655; Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:40:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.10.12 with HTTP; Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:40:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120714001343.GA6879@waltdnes.org> References: <4FFD7949.4000204@gentoo.org> <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> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 20:40:20 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev <-> mdev From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 9b33b9e8-743c-491f-a8ed-3c0a14f2527d X-Archives-Hash: 1778a820b052c2dfcec05ec9b43fc7be On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 01:49:32AM +0300, Maxim Kammerer wrote >> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Richard Yao wrote: >> > mdev would need to switch to the netlink hotplug interface. >> >> I think that's quite unlikely, since mdev is not a daemon. Perhaps by >> the time /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug is gone, mdev advocates will have >> settled on some early udev fork. [1] > > Do you realize this would effectively kill linux in the embedded > device area? Udev, even without the systemd code, is simply to large > for embedded devices. I'll venture a guess the solution will be to create a shim daemon which turns around and launches udev. -- :wq