On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 09:08:52AM -0800, Greg KH wrote > Again, any specific pointer to a commit in the tree that caused this?
See http://wiki.gentoo.org/index.php?title=Udev/upgrade&redirect=no Comments? > Since this version udev depends on files in /usr. If you have /usr > on a separate partition, you must boot your system with an initramfs > which pre-mounts /usr. I understand that one option being considered is patching the build to not depend on files in /usr. Showing my age here, I remember when IBM patched Windows 3.1 on-the-fly, to make it a DPMI client of OS/2. MS released Windows 3.11, which vas very slightly different, and the patch broke. IBM had to rush out a new patch. Given how cavalierly Kay & Lennart broke firmware driver loading, I would not envy the Gentoo ebuild maintainer trying to keep udev compatable with a separate /usr, especially given Lennart's pronouncement about standalone udev being "a dead end". The maintainer will face a task similar in principle to what IBM was doing. What Richard Yao is doing is the udev equivalant of "jump off before you get pushed off". -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> We are apparently better off trying to avoid udev like the plague. Linus Torvalds; 2012/10/03 https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/3/349
