There's another thread for complaining about the brokenness of the proposed udev implementation. This one is for doing something about it. After reading the udev-complaints thread, I joined the busybox list, and asked if busybox's simple mdev feature could replace udev. See thread http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.busybox/35018
Apparently it can be done for "simple" systems, but there may be problems for some of the more complex setups. Then again, these more complex systems are the ones that would probably require /usr on the same partition as /, in the first place (or else initramfs). See message http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.busybox/35028 for details. In addition to the "mdev" flag, I would recommend the "static" flag on principle, especially if /usr is a separate partition. If we ever do get this working on a large scale, we may need to ask the Gentoo developers for a "virtual/udev" ebuild, which could be satisfied by busybox with the "mdev" flag, just like "virtual/mta" can be satisfied by ssmtp with the "mta" flag. This would allow people to choose whether they want udev or mdev. We should keep the discussion on this mailing list. Asking once if it's possible is one thing. Flooding the busybox list with Gentoo- specific questions would probably not be appreciated. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
