Can mdev replace udev in an ordinary linux distro?

Bernd Petrovitsch bernd at petrovitsch.priv.at
Fri Sep 16 11:53:20 UTC 2011


On Don, 2011-09-15 at 22:32 +0200, Harald Becker wrote:
> > I don't think that mdev supports an mdev.conf.d/ sort of paradigm ...
> 
> ... but we can implement that /etc/mdev.d feature ... it is not too
> difficult to do.
> 
> With an /etc/mdev.d system it would be easy for other packages to add
> mdev rules to the system. That way we do not mangle with /etc/mdev.conf
> in every package and scripting would be a lot easier.

Not that I'm an udev or mdev expert but what's then the difference to
udev?
Supporting the same features in quite similar way make me fear that it
will be similarly slow.

	Bernd
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