Re: About having a static /dev

[Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>]

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On 22-04-10 14:46, Antonio Ospite wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:55:43 +0100
> Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 13:43 +0200, Antonio Ospite wrote:
>>>  2. If I install any package which depends on udev then udev is brought
>>>     in and the static layout is gone at the next boot.
>>
>> I think your best option is probably to make udev be a DISTRO_FEATURE
>> and not set it for your own distribution.
>>
>> If you genuinely want udev to be selected (for your particular DISTRO)
>> on a per-MACHINE basis then you'll have to invent some way to nobble its
>> startup script so that it just doesn't do anything on machines where it
>> isn't wanted.
>>
> 
> A per-MACHINE way would be better IMHO

That would break the case where you want static devs for one image (e.g.
initramfs, rescue fs), but other options (e.g. udev, devtempfs, mdev,
something else) for other images on the same machine.

regards,

Koen
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