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 1R5BpU-0005ov-T0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Sep 2011 07:30:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A651D21C113; Sun, 18 Sep 2011 07:30:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8136021C08F for ; Sun, 18 Sep 2011 07:29:15 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvcAAKucdU7O+IFa/2dsb2JhbABCmGVDjjp4gVMBAQU6HDMLGBwSFA0YN7xyhhhgBJh0hGaCdIRE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.68,400,1312171200"; d="scan'208";a="136960445" Received: from 206-248-129-90.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([206.248.129.90]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with SMTP; 18 Sep 2011 03:29:13 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 18 Sep 2011 03:29:31 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 03:29:31 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr Message-ID: <20110918072931.GA29105@waltdnes.org> References: <20110912150248.GB3599@acm.acm> <1879248.cfd3ZtivOU@eve> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1879248.cfd3ZtivOU@eve> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 3e3332fbda06a3a358470da94532a545 On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:25:11PM +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote > On Thursday, September 15, 2011 01:43:17 PM Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s > wrote: > > (This mail is to keep the guys un -user in the loop about -devel). > > > > OK, so Joost posted his proposal to -dev: > > > > The thread on gentoo-dev is not yet finished and I intend to try to get some > more information. As I mentioned in my other email. I've asked on the busybox list, and one of the people there says he does have a chrooted Gentoo running with mdev (a busybox tool) replacing udev. There were various other changes he had to make to get it working, but it obviously can be done. He's busy for the next couple of weeks, but has offered (offline) to work on generalizing it to work in more general cases. Apparently, the mdev code is a small part of busybox, so he figures it would be simplest to copy the code out of busybox, and make a standalone mdev. The busybox mdev doesn't have all the features of udev, and busybox's developers will obviously want to keep their code lean-and-mean. That's why a standalone mdev seems to be the way to go. -- Walter Dnes