mdev feature request

Rich Felker dalias at aerifal.cx
Mon Sep 25 17:54:58 UTC 2006


On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 06:22:03PM +0200, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> >I thought I would see how small it could be made in the code, and decide
> >from there if it was worth it or not.
> 
> Sure, it's obvious how this is useful for setups that are ro or if
> you're very low on space (so cannot afford to duplicate the size the
> mdev rules take up since they would exist twice, both in /etc/mdev.d/*
> and in the concatenated /etc/mdev.conf).

If a system is tiny, why does it need to use /etc/mdev.d/* at all??
Just pregenerate a complete mdev.conf. *.d stuff is for bloated
package management systems, not embedded devices...

Rich




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