From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 19:15:17 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] What to do about systemd/udev/eudev? In-Reply-To: References: <20130304192156.7bfe23bf@skate> <1362471660.7276.2@driftwood> Message-ID: <20130305191517.378a1c82@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Charles Krinke, On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 07:04:45 -0800, Charles Krinke wrote: > As a user working on an AM3517 project with buildroot, I am having > trouble seeing anything wrong with the existing implementation of > mdev. We have 802.11 and USB disks that are plugged in and removed and > the mdev subsystem seems to be working fine. > > Having other alternatives is nice, but I hope we do not remove the > existing mdev which appears to work fine in embedded systems. There has never been any plan to remove mdev. We are talking about possibility removing udev if systemd is not chosen as the init system. That's all. mdev will stay here, for sure. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com