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Author: Rainer Weikusat
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] vdev - udev is a dead end
dev <devuan.2@???> writes:
> On 08/10/2016 04:26 AM, Didier Kryn wrote:
>>     Hello. Thanks to a friendly help, I've found a few mails and
>> articles which deserve to be read:

>>
>>     Udev on non-systemd is a dead-end:

>
> So.. then.. basically any Linux distro which uses udev to populate
> /dev/ is going to be S.O.L? Including Slackware presumably?


This is seriously old news (dating back to 2012). udev became mandatory
on Linux by eating hotplug. systemd is supposed to become mandatory on
Linux by eating udev.

There are two solutions to this problem:

1) Stop using udev.
2) Fork udev.