Re: [PATCH 2/3] initramfs-module-udev: New module

[Kelvie Wong <kwong@wurldtech.com>]

On September 25, 2010 03:29:15 pm Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Kelvie Wong <kwong@wurldtech.com> wrote:
> > This launches (and kills) udev during the initramfs procedure to populate
> > the /dev tree as udev would.
> 
> I didn't get /why/ do you kill it after starting.
> 
> Personally I think this could be supported by not enabled by default.
> This might be an option that could be set by image.

This was to let the rest of the boot process start udev, if it wants to.

All I need udev for is to populate /dev (specifically, the nodes in /dev/disk 
to set the root partition by label, e.g. for USB disk partitions); I don't 
want to leave processes running when doing the chroot, either.

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