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 1SrYq3-0005ze-RV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:19:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D92FDE0529; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:18:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from homiemail-a38.g.dreamhost.com (caiajhbdccah.dreamhost.com [208.97.132.207]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AEC8E068E for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:18:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from homiemail-a38.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by homiemail-a38.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CB1710AFC7 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:17:40 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=zx2c4.com; h=mime-version :in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to: content-type; q=dns; s=zx2c4.com; b=ZkNvb4BuibTwNnGzHyIt7wL1H0g9 1DVUVhWPi7GHbAw4adhzAbhvCn1G6RcL4Igios8f30TZbAQzPfVCorLgk5Tsb0zy a4aNitpH3XNgr4obvhBTerOJRfPBNQX011au25fz4rEYRihTO0iCXWyrHKCgr4/b ps3j7/khN9YqaaA= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=zx2c4.com; h=mime-version :in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to: content-type; s=zx2c4.com; bh=PofSMFGPSHj35wvaidxe9JTJCwc=; b=dS 76I2Zyuc+gJU1E3EVxwkG1tz706+2cakznxkRWGzS2hm8wUD95MdACrZpGcx7NmP KoieBQaDSK+4lKuiaTUHW7iDwuzNSY6GivqkH+Lu9bK2S+t/7twigsrpDz0TcyRR 6FYkG29gksDHpCXJ0L5tWU3f/ubPOdD+hlg6imwHE= Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: jason@zx2c4.com) by homiemail-a38.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 17DBB10B07E for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:06:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by yhp26 with SMTP id 26so2035488yhp.40 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:06:42 -0700 (PDT) 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 10.50.163.3 with SMTP id ye3mr3024198igb.24.1342634801602; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:06:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.24.38 with HTTP; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:06:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120718153502.GA13957@waltdnes.org> References: <5005D70D.3060108@gentoo.org> <20120717230245.GA17825@linux1> <5005F314.6070805@gentoo.org> <20120718001209.GA18218@linux1> <20120718153502.GA13957@waltdnes.org> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:06:41 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Opinion against /usr merge From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 7a919b4c-db69-4d2f-a5b3-f73f13a9c128 X-Archives-Hash: 5bb5e538baf2fda9f5f5be4c5f01d9ff On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > 3. More support for mdev; e.g. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev and > (still in beta) https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev/Automount_USB The > next challenge is "custom mdev rules", which should be do-able. Innnnnteresting. Can you talk more about the benefits of mdev in non-embedded systems? Why would I want to use this instead of udev (aside from the /usr dispute).