Can mdev replace udev in an ordinary linux distro?

[Baruch Siach]

Hi Natanael,

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 02:30:06PM +0200, Natanael Copa wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Denys Vlasenko
> <vda.linux at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Netlink based solution requires a daemon.
> 
> I think thats ok for archs with MMU. busbox will most likely already
> be in memory for syslog, shell etc.
> 
> I'd be happy to trade a daemon for faster bootups (less forks)
>
> I suppose it'd be good to be able to do both. Then you could start the
> mdev daemon early at boot, do the coldplugging and as one of the
> latest steps at boot stop the deamon and switch back to echo
> "/sbin/mdev" > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug

Just do 'mdev -s' at startup; It doesn't fork, as far as I can see. Then make 
mdev your hotplug agent.

baruch

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