[PATCH] Add subsystem support to mdev (firmware loading)

Michael-Luke Jones jonesml at fastmail.to
Fri Oct 20 19:05:57 UTC 2006


> Any any reason not to have it install
> itself as /sbin/hotplug or set /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug pointing
> to /sbin/mdev when run with 'mdev -s'?

1) Because /sbin/hotplug is deprecated?
2) Because some people want to use mdev to initially populate /dev  
early in boot then hand on to udev later in the boot process?

Mike



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