Re: udev or mdev?

BRM <[email protected]> Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:11:23 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.server
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> From: Pandu Poluan <[email protected]>

>On Mar 21, 2012 4:23 PM, "Halassy Zoltán" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> IMO, initramfs adds yet another black box during server boot.
>> The other way around, for me at least. I build my own initramfs, yet I don't know anything about mdev, just the fact it's part of busybox. So for me, mdev is a black box, while my initramfs definitely isn't.
>I see. Well, different views for different people, I guess.
>It's easier for me to bypass mdev (if it's b0rken) than to bypass initramfs.


As I've had to use BusyBox extensively in some environments, I find their tools very lacking in comparison to non-BusyBox environments.
As such, I've come to really hate mdev, and I'll keep udev around for as long as it is the "standard" or until that "standard" changes to something better - of which, mdev it will not be.

$0.02

Ben