Op 22 aug. 2012 14:07 schreef "Felipe Contreras" <[email protected]> het volgende: > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Guus Snijders <[email protected]> wrote: > > Op 22 aug. 2012 10:59 schreef "Kevin Chadwick" <[email protected]> het > > volgende: > >> > > > How about creating a vm with > > Arch and getting an alternative to udev running? > > I do this all the time with buildroot; udev is a choice, and I often > have trouble compiling it because it depends on so many things, like > specific kernel configurations, and certain toolchain options. The > fact of the matter is that udev doesn't do much for me, > CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y and CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y does most of the job, > the rest is loading the right modules at boot time, which can be done > with a simple script. There's also mdev from busybox, but it's too > simple, I don't really understand what is the point of it.
Looks like i need to do some catching up ;-). Udev has worked fine for me, so my interest is mostly academic. Just in case, it's always good to learn about alternatives. Thanks. mvg, Guus
