Greg KH wrote:
> Care to send that patch upstream?  :)
> 

Ok, here is a patch, which introduces two new config options:

# udev_preserve_owner - preserve the ownership, if the device node is already there
udev_preserve_owner="no"

# udev_remove_devicenodes - remove created device nodes, if the device is removed
#               symlinks will be removed no matter what
udev_remove_devicenodes="yes"

This patch is useful for systems with /dev not beeing a ramfs and for administrators,
who want /dev to be as untouched as possible.

The right fix for udev_remove_devicenodes would be, to add the entry to the udev database,
what files were created by udev, so that only udev generated device nodes and softlinks
would be removed.