Can mdev replace udev in an ordinary linux distro?

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Laurent Bercot
<ska-dietlibc at skarnet.org> wrote:
>> Nothing is 100.000000000000000000000000000000% robust.
>> /dev/mdev.seq is not robust enough for you?
>
>  The SEQNUM mechanism relies on polling, which is ugly. The netlink-based
> mechanism is notification-based. Sure, it requires a daemon, but since it's
> busybox and most busybox-based systems will already have long-running
> busybox processes (if only a getty), it does not matter much.
>
>  I'll try to submit a patch that enables netlink functionality for mdev.
> Should patches be provided against the current (1.19.2) release?

Patches should be against current git.

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