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From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] man: use systemd as example instead of udev
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On 2014-03-06 22:47, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> wrote:
>> On 2014-03-06 15:06, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
>>> Nowadays udev doesn't create nodes in /dev anymore. This role is rather
>>                               ^static
>>
>> As of writing this, udev still takes care of "normal" device nodes.
>>
> 
> nops... it doesn't even have the capability to create nodes anymore:
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/units/systemd-udevd.service.in?id=edeb68c53f1cdc452016b4c8512586a70b1262e3
> 
> I don' t know what you mean by normal device node... but udev now
> relies on 2 sources for creating nodes:
> 
> 1) devtmpfs in the kernel
> 2) systemd-tmpfiles, that runs on early boot taking the output of
> 'kmod static-nodes'

Ah, I didn't know that devtmpfs is mandatory now.

Michal