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 1RiQpp-0003xc-Lk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:24:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0B3F121C0DF; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 13:24:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-tul01m020-f181.google.com (mail-tul01m020-f181.google.com [209.85.214.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0731B21C08E for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 13:23:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obbup6 with SMTP id up6so16206418obb.40 for ; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:23:38 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=h3njcFG3iaeHmo21MFXSz/m+rmSyphRbluVhrkq18IA=; b=mVTCah03FndyhzyA3swIguARlQUAv0vlA/4WT3R2eKXYm+h4PVX9U5/HU1COV3ynSI gwyIGFfF5K4EGc4WTZ3a9Vmu7F8WDyDbXbxge3j5XIWyCTv6mDgCH8lraCn2ZO2p+tGJ ee7xeRlpK8a05KhoGEs2NH3fzybr8/M71yukI= Received: by 10.182.197.104 with SMTP id it8mr48348307obc.17.1325683418441; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:23:38 -0800 (PST) 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 Sender: nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com Received: by 10.182.134.9 with HTTP; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 05:23:17 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <20120101015947.GA9914@linux1> <20120103095157.GC1961@waltdnes.org> From: Nirbheek Chauhan Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 18:53:17 +0530 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 3-pXqAkVHtaCD4BUsEsnMYuijdo Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: c331ff30-65f8-4049-9326-c2189aa5c76f X-Archives-Hash: ac255d80b58777dedc216b4327972283 On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Arun Raghavan wrote: >> Does mdev support all the rules we have in /lib/udev/rules.d/? The >> Internet is surprisingly mute on this subject, but a quick grep >> through the busybox source doesn't turn up anything that suggests that >> it might. > > I think the main use case for mdev is to do a one-time creation of > typical device nodes with minimal use of resources. In that case, you don't need a userspace daemon at all. Just use devtmpfs. That'll use even lower resources. -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team