From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mandeepsandhu.chd@gmail.com (Mandeep Sandhu) Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:29:28 +0530 Subject: thinking of updating the canonical online udev document In-Reply-To: <20110426133140.GB14149@kroah.com> References: <20110426125445.GA6272@kroah.com> <20110426133140.GB14149@kroah.com> Message-ID: To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org > udev is used in the "embedded" world all the time, there's no reason you > can't just take the shipping tarball and use it in your product just > fine. We actually ended up doing just that (i.e use the latest udev from source), while building another component for our platform - NetworkManager. :) > > But discussion about any problems you have with that, would not be > answered by the document described originally, you can just ask them on > the linux-hotplug at vger.kernel.org list. Ok, thanks. > Use the provided tools and don't roll your own. ?It will save you time > and frustration. ?Look at all of the mess that people have gone through > to try to re-do udev on their own already and the problems they had with > it (google in android, busybox version of udev, etc.) Totally agree. We'd love to use all the existing open-source components out there...and we're making a conscious effort towards that, i.e reuse of existing desktop/embedded components and not write our won stuff. Thanks, -mandeep > > good luck, > > greg k-h >