Re: /dev/fw major not constant (embedded mdev devtmpfs ieee1394)

[Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 15:57, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 09:56:10PM +0100, Paul Chavent wrote:
>> I'am working on an embedded gnu/linux system that allow to capture an ieee1394 stream.
>>
>> The system is compound of a kernel, a basic initrd (libc,libgcc,busybox,libdc1394,...) and my app.
>>
>> I use the new firewire stack.
>>
>> As my system is very minimalist, i tought to create the nodes in /dev at the moment of building my initrd.
>>
>> But when i needed to modify my kernel configuration, it has changed the major number of /dev/fw*.
>>
>> It's not really important for the definitive system (it will be
>> freeze), but i wonder how to solve this issue for my future works ?
>>
>> I don't need hotplug, i just need to fill /dev at startup (coldplug).
>> The target is an embedded device, so it should be easy to
>> build/configure/install, and lightweight.
>>
>> For those reasons i don't want to use udev.
>
> Why, is udev somehow not "lightweight"?

in comparison, it is absolutely not
-mike

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