On 04/29/2012 04:11 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2012-04-29 at 14:59 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> On 04/27/2012 03:28 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: >>> On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 08:55 +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote: >>>> On 04/27/12 03:32, Adam Borowski wrote: >>>>> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 08:08:01PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >>>>>> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 02:03:17PM -0400, Jonas Smedegaard >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> I believe Debian still supports running locally compiled >>>>>>> kernels which do not depend on udev, and that some setups do >>>>>>> not require udev either (not everyone use fibre channel). >>>>>> >>>>>> It is supported only in the sense that it is not yet impossible. >>>>>> >>>>>> Please don't ask anyone to spend time to avoid udev dependencies; >>>>>> hotplugging is normal and udev is the proper way to handle all >>>>>> devices the Linux kernel finds. >>>> >>>> udev is just the reference implementation. mdev [part of busybox] can >>>> do the same (modulo rules: it has a slightly simpler format that >>>> doesn't provide exactly the same features (yet)) >>> [...] >>> >>> Sure, for Linux in general you have other options like mdev. However, >>> Debian uses udev. >> >> >> Debian installs udev by default, but as with other init systems it should >> not stop your from using whatever-you-like instead of udev. > > Of course, Debian has many derivative distributions that use some alternate > components.
Please stop trolling. There is no reason why we should not allow people to use mdev or whatever they like instead of udev. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f9d4faf.1060...@bzed.de
