mdev feature request

[Jason Schoon]

On 9/24/06, Michael-Luke Jones <jonesml at fastmail.to> wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I'm emailing as a developer within the NSLU2-Linux.org project. We
> are considering whether to adopt mdev to replace udev in our next
> release of SlugOS, a custom Linux distribution used for IXP4xx
> devices, such as the NSLU2.
>
> I've already put together test images with mdev and have been
> extremely impressed by its speed and ease of configuration. This is
> in sharp contrast to udev.
>
> However, there's one feature request that should be quite easy to add
> by anyone who can write C code (minor omission in my skill set). We
> would like an option in defconfig so that mdev reads all files in /
> etc/mdev.d/ rather than mdev.conf. This would allow us to install and
> remove extra configuration options using our packaging system much
> more easily than with a single config file.
>
> I think mdev has not got enough publicity given how quick and clean
> I've found it to be. It took much less time to completely replace
> mdev with udev in our build system than it took me to unsuccessfully
> debug udev's firmware loading ;)
>
> Thanks for reading,
>
> Michael-Luke


Shouldn't be difficult, and seems like a perfectly reasonable request.  I
should have a patch for you by sometime tomorrow, unless someone beats me to
it.
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