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Autore: Didier Kryn
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To: dng
Oggetto: Re: [DNG] An alternative to renaming [was Re: Proposed change in behaviour for ascii: eudev net.ifnames]
Le 22/08/2017 à 03:38, Adam Borowski a écrit :
> Per the other thread, the only thing you need udev/mdev for anymore is
> setting permissions and calling hooks. Don't tell me that udev is a "big
> price" on any machine bigger than a microcontroller these days.


     The price of depending on Udev-Systemd and Dbus. The price of not 
being assured of the future of Eudev and of Vdev. The price of the 
complexity of all these.


>> You might have missed the context. We were talking about how to ensure
>> that Xorg works with mdev, rather than udev.
> But why? mdev is not meant to be used beyond an initramfs, it can't do
> hotplug, and on modern Linux coldplug is almost entirely done via hotplug --
> with shit happening if your software can't take a device which took a while
> to start.


     What makes you think it should be restricted to initramfs? For sure 
it was meant to have a small footprint and small resource usage, but I 
don't think it sacrifies any functionality, except it lacks the 
equivalent of libudev, which library seems to be used only by Udev 
itself and Xorg.


     Didier