From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Stefan_Fr=F6berg?= Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:12:29 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] What to do about systemd/udev/eudev? In-Reply-To: References: <1362312574-17701-1-git-send-email-olivier.schonken@gmail.com> <20130303195436.49654719@skate> <948441.33302.bm@smtp138.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <5134E40D.6@petroprogram.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 4.3.2013 12:53, Lionel Orry kirjoitti: > Another note, Funtoo Linux (a gentoo derivative) team is experimenting > with usage of mdev as a complete udev replacement for the whole > distro. It seems to work and tries to prove the scalability of mdev > which sounds promising. Here are some files resulting from these > attempts: > > - mdev from busybox configured for funtoo (1 tiny patch and simple > configuration in the ebuild): > https://github.com/slashbeast/foo-overlay/tree/master/sys-fs/mdev-bb > - repository for notes and mdev config/init scripts (may be worth a > look at mdev.conf and mdev.init): > https://github.com/slashbeast/mdev-like-a-boss > > What I wanna say, is that it *may* sound reasonable to strongly > suggest people to stick with mdev as much as they can. > > Cheers > Lionel Yes, I for one can confirm that if you don't need anything else than to populate /dev with nodes and maybe few symlinks then mdev is perfectly fine. I have run buildroot xorg with mdev without any problems. *But* ... (and this is a big but) I have not tested how it reacts to kernel events after boot when you *plug/unplug* devices and if mdev is capable of *running programs/scripts when some event happens*. If Funtoo can make it work and make it also work seamlessly with all the other crazy stuff (network-manager, and some other gnome stuff) then I will kick out udev from my system in a nanosecond :-) Regards Stefan