Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release

Jeremy Jackson
2003-04-11T16:58:48Z

What about read-only root fs? What about the root= kernel command line
ever working? What about initrd issues?

On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 23:24, Greg KH wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to finally announce the previously vapor-ware udev program that
> I've talked a lot about with a lot of people over the past months. The
> first, very rough cut is at:
> kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-0.1.tar.gz
>
> But what is it? I've included an initial design document below that was
> originally written by Dan Stekloff, and hacked up a bit by me. But in
> short, udev is a userspace replacement for devfs. It will create and
> destroy /dev entries based on the current system configuration. It does
> this by watching the /sbin/hotplug events on the system, and reading
> information about these events from sysfs.
>