RFD: Rework/extending functionality of mdev

[Harald Becker]

Hi William !

On 11.03.2015 17:03, William Haddon wrote:
> I suppose it's time to dig out code from the secret archives of my
> secret lair again. Someone named Vladimir Dronnikov called this "ndev"
> and proposed it as a patch to Busybox in 2009. I dug it out and
> separated it from Busybox, and probably made some other changes I don't
> remember, for some nefarious agenda I again don't remember. It is a
> modified version of mdev that seems to do some of the things you all
> have been talking about. I'm not maintaining it in any way, so you all
> are welcome to do whatever you want with it. I have no idea whether it
> works or not, other than that it apparently was once useful to me.

May be worth to dig into, or not? ... I'm currently in the phase of 
collecting and discussing functionality, not concerned to code hacking.

Would get much more interesting, if you can give information, in which 
functionality it differs. What was the authors intention of forking 
mdev? And may be, why has it be neglected?

Otherwise: I saved your message and may come back to this when I start 
looking at concrete code, or I'm searching for a specific functionality 
and how it is handled by other developers. So, thanks for information.

--
Harald