Can mdev replace udev in an ordinary linux distro?

[Harald Becker]

 Hallo Bernd!

>>> 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.
> Supporting the same features in quite similar way make me fear that it
> will be similarly slow.

No, it is not to implement every feature in the same way. There is just
one difference which would make mdev more usable for package management:

Currently mdev reads it's configuration from a single file
/etc/mdev.conf ... my idea is to allow reading the same type of entries
as are contained in /etc/mdev.conf from a directory /etc/mdev.d. That
is: Scan that directory to read the configurations split out in separate
files. May be in addition to reading /etc/mdev.conf. That way it will
not make any differences to current Busybox mdev users but give
additional flexibility to distro package managers (put single file per
package in /etc/mdev.d -- if package needs to extend mdev.conf).

Beside this I wouldn't like to add in every udev feature in mdev. I like
the simplicity of mdev and won't change that ... but I also see the
problems of distro package management and automatic updating of
configuration files during package installation.

--
Harald