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 1RQM5X-0005aP-7I for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:42:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2E93621C0F3; Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:42:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05ED1E03E0 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:41:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.45]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7D88216E4 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:41:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend2.nyi.mail.srv.osa ([10.202.2.161]) by compute5.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:41:19 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=letterboxes.org; h=message-id:subject:from:to:date:in-reply-to:references :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version; s=mesmtp; bh=7jIcHWByQ5JozKJcH3WGqvN9Sbw=; b=Kxt4ynGYk1MDYj9A78ZyvL2mrNXy /h8hKVnhsS2ZuCyBdmshRBIyg3P4EkI8dQcbVOF7PX9bI2m+RjjL1hswKd/AOx43 NpXMCQ1DMHR44J9uybfeesPj2gbOiUqeNpwUnsA5wCSv2wVIDk2oEj6cDuf4lwoA HuEp2OO8Iw1ziJA= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:subject:from:to:date :in-reply-to:references:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :mime-version; s=smtpout; bh=7jIcHWByQ5JozKJcH3WGqvN9Sbw=; b=VAr xvEyrQe7lh+2Nv2xooAWJzlPsvOo85l0AdXDX2EYe9N4n34AwMO19zrUpBY29+Z8 PjwswOY68Whf4Mc2pzBxlLx4TbKHEIRWrdYcKuK7TqPzaK+kG/tX5CQfdPkjRxRQ o8oxW9/V5BDaTAGFSC19Z8sTmw/4v3MxHjQkU/iw= X-Sasl-enc: 2bzvynw2DPP74v3tsWx8s7QyWE/1aNQxTRcznjv3uiJD 1321375278 Received: from [192.168.31.28] (cpe-174-109-032-219.nc.res.rr.com [174.109.32.219]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AD0B34824F8 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:41:16 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <1321375270.8747.0.camel@stretch> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody want to beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev? From: "Albert W. Hopkins" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:41:10 -0500 In-Reply-To: References: <20111115062115.GA3262@waltdnes.org> Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAAXNSR0IArs4c6QAAADBQTFRF1///CwsLGxsbJycnNzc3RUVFU1NTYmJicXFxf39/jIyMm5ubq6urubm5yMjI3t7eukg4JQAAAAF0Uk5TAEDm2GYAAAIoSURBVDhPpZC9btRQEEbPGIJQhOIZB4SEhGJ7W/42lihoKCJ6agoeglfgDXiQPAGEio5sKGgTLxRIFNk7DigV7FD4J4SW23jud+75ZA38x9ncnb3wf0PgjZnZdvo35rVZZWa3RiLDd+PGMNz5oABkw/2e9ne+HTgwGRt3nejHzc8Gk/EURfvx/IgLcK3YNZWB7C8vwFqtqcxEAPYD4CoAr5xUiBaJlfOrvTA+IRLqLhisWx/B9RItzckjHCJNxtqKGhRBgEiTAWCIBqGXDNBODEdBIWIEgquCiosD6GQsTYzAVVUAH0FCFDPP3ce8Byenx0hhFRBoX5cBFPXJUVILUog6rTOs5Mv5DnGyOAaXHMvb0fiU3z8QbNZAjmg5VXVbP/N0uHhyWJrAl8RYhebzVcq+K4CJ2WgomSbWsSsguRY6GtncD0N0EYImEcrRkPUxXcrKflNYN4LUmqKndQVOV5qOIDp5Vhb518oEqqxgBFuyOhSKlRF4NptPhp22Ee0ylnioNfVkPPLSix1SG9BJrRN4aFcevfNIKw8f8h5k8vtsnlUauSBiF2DD6/ePd5LPAOvzHpw97F6+dbHOk1T1X4DnXN2rlF+OWKXAuN3Cj3HHNW5u/13FzeQtEkv/YU0vDCATjZSn8KqZXwLdA3Kny+q6GZoGwPPFmZ5oNWt29TK4/XSVpK6bPRny4a+Qx1+FrNkrdATji/XHhdTbw55gMrC0TaFTEfwB/cbNxoZIacsAAAAASUVORK5CYII= Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Archives-Salt: faf15126-58cf-4fdd-a33f-62ab6f00d73d X-Archives-Hash: 0d77122fdbe6d8eddf323eda0fbd408e On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 14:44 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > However, my Gentoo systems are all virtual servers (DomU VMs on > XenServer). > So, the hardware devices are static. Will switching over to mdev give > any > benefits? > > I even am toying around with the idea of having a completely > static /dev, > but still can't find any guide/pointers yet. I have a completely static /dev/ on my VMs.. I just disable the udev devfs services and create whatever device nodes needed manually.