On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 11:44:51AM +0200, Owen Taylor wrote: > On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 18:05, Thomas Woerner wrote: > > There are test packages in http://people.redhat.com/twoerner/UDEV/ for using > > udev in initrd with persistent devices. > > I just wanted to revisit this and ask how this work was going? > > I really have no technical opinions on how it should be implemented > in detail, but I think it's pretty important to get default use of > udev(*) into FC3 ... not just for dynamic device usage, HAL, etc, > but in order to make read-only root setups (e.g., LTSP style network > boot) easier. > > Regards, > Owen > > (*) I know some people (yes, you, Jeremy) have serious reservations > about the details of how udev is implemented. And I really > just mean "dynamic creation of device nodes on a ram filesystem". > But I don't think the fact that udev is too > bloated/complex/policyless/whatever to run in Anaconda should keep > us from trying to start fixing these problems for installed > systems. If HAL is also a daemon, then it could also provide the same functionality as udev? Or could dbus-support be added to udev, too? I also haven't looked at this myself, but AFAIK udev is collecting the information to maintain /dev and hal is a daemon providing information on available hardware. Hmmm... greetings, Florian La Roche
