Re: New software: Hotplug2, aimed at early userspace

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 04:30:17PM +0200, iSteve wrote:
> 
> The advantages over udev are, as I believe:
>  * Faster (way faster!) processing of events, because far less actions are
> performed. 
>  * The size is (obviously) also way smaller, which is a generic advantage;)

If you want a small and faster versionof udev, that does less things,
the very first few versions of udev will do just that :)

> The disadvantages would be:
>  * Far less actions are performed and far less actions _can_ be performed. For
> anything more complex, including creating relevant symlinks, one must have
> another application or script handling that. 
>  
> Therefore, as said earlier, Hotplug2 definitely is not aimed as replacement
> for udev on desktop, with the exception of initramfs / initrd.

But people already use udev today with initramfs / initrd.  And then
there's busybox's implementation of a udev-like program, which is about
2 years behind udev's evolution.

I'm all for people working on what they want to work on, but perhaps you
might want to help working with us on making udev fit your requirements?

thanks,

greg k-h

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