Can mdev replace udev in an ordinary linux distro?

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il> wrote:
>> >> $SEQNUM thing is supposed to take care of that, no?
>> >
>> > AFAIK, there is no robust way for the mdev running on $SEQNUM == N to know
>> > whether the one doing $SEQNUM == N-1 has finished its business.
>>
>> Nothing is 100.000000000000000000000000000000% robust.
>> /dev/mdev.seq is not robust enough for you?
>
> The netlink based solution looks more robust and more elegant to me.

Netlink based solution requires a daemon.

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