mdev woes

[Jason Curl]

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thursday 28 June 2007, Yan Seiner wrote:
>> First there way static /dev
>> then there was devfs
>> then there was udev
>> now there is mdev (which is udev but for busybox)
>>
>> I guess I don't always understand the problems that the newer systems
>> are fixing.  Don't get me wrong, I use udev and devfs quite a bit and I
>> wouldn't go back to the static /dev.
> 
> mdev and udev are exactly the same ... the kernel notifies userspace of an 
> event (device is created) and they parse /sysfs for metadata about the device 
> so that it can create the proper device node
> 
> the reason mdev exists is merely because udev is much larger than many people 
> need/want

Does that mean mdev will be using the new notification mechanism as 
"/sbin/hotplug" is already deprecated and no longer used by udev? I 
haven't tested this feature yet (still building the filesystem), but I 
hope it isn't yet out of date. Even though linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net 
mentions "/sbin/hotplug", SuSE 10.0 and newer distros don't use it. It 
looks like they're using dbus.