On 04/27/12 03:08, Ben Hutchings wrote: [snip] > >> Don't assume dynamic device detection is only about personal machines > >> or USB. It's useful in a much wider context. >> Agreed it is *useful* in many cases. >> >> But I also agree that it is not *required* in *all* cases. >> >> 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. Actually ... mdev does the job quite nicely.
All (well, almost all) udev does is listen on a netlink socket for kernel events, then look which rule matches and then do what the rule tells you to do. There's no strict dependency on udev, it's just a convenient default implementation. And as it has gotten more inconvenient maybe we should just add a udev rule parser to mdev and be done with it? Have fun, Patrick -- 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/4fa7d56d.9080...@gentoo.org
