Re: New software: Hotplug2, aimed at early userspace

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 04:00:42PM +0200, iSteve wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 18:27:43 -0700
> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > If you want a small and faster versionof udev, that does less things,
> > the very first few versions of udev will do just that :)
> 
> I thought the first versions were still using /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug
> interface?

Yes they are, but it would be pretty trivial to change that if you so
desired.

> > But people already use udev today with initramfs / initrd.  And then
> > there's busybox's implementation of a udev-like program, which is about
> > 2 years behind udev's evolution.
> 
> Yes, I'm aware that people use udev in initramfs/initrd... the point is, I
> disagree with it... I think fullblown udev for initramfs/initrd is just a huge
> overkill -- not that most people actually care...

Why do you think this?  You need to do /dev stuff there, and you want
persistent names at that point in time too.

Are you running out of space somewhere that makes udev too big for your
initramfs?

> > I'm all for people working on what they want to work on, but perhaps you
> > might want to help working with us on making udev fit your requirements?
> 
> Hmm, I guess I could; I thought it'd be faster (and it'd involve less hassle
> while discussing it with people) to write a fully working application, at least
> as a proof of concept...

Yes, proof of concepts are great.  Maybe I'm missing something, but how
does this instance show how things should be changed in udev?

thanks,

greg k-h

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