On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 02:44:47AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 2:39 AM, Alison Chaiken <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MinimalBuilds/ says that > the minimum requirements are udev and journald. I wonder if udev is > really needed if the kernel is completely statically compiled and > module loading is disabled? That is a common use case for many > embedded devices. > > > Yeah, we still need udev to populate /dev and manage device changes, all of > which is still relevant even if the kernel has everything built in. (devtmpfs > doesn't let us dump udev, either.)
Population of /dev happens from devtmpfs, not udev. udev doesn't create device nodes anymore, and hasn't for years from what I recall. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
