On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 11:29:15AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 03:03:50PM +0100, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult > wrote > > On 31.12.2014 10:59, Jude Nelson wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > However, future entanglements with systemd and kdbus could make this > > > much harder, to the point that eudev has no choice but to diverge > > > from udev, thereby increasing the maintenance burden considerably. > > > > yeah, sooner or later there'll need to do a full fork. > > we should get in contact with them (I just posted a first mail onto > > their maillist). > > Hi; I read that post. Has anyone here considered "mdev" from the > busybox package? I'm not a C/C++ programmer, just a Gentoo user, > but I've been able to replace udev with mdev on my home machines. I was > the ****-disturber who started up the wiki page... > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev
Yes, mdev has been mentioned numerous times on this list. I tried following that page or a related one to set up X11 sans udev on Debian, but never got keyboard input working. (Wondering about configuration/if I need to recompile Mesa and X...). > I've also managed to enable automounting of USB devices using an ash > script (I did say I'm not a C/C++ programmer). *GUI NOT REQUIRED* See > the wiki pages... > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev/Automount_USB > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev/Automount_USB/automount > Part of the reason for the "um" script is to allow a regular user to > unmount a USB key or drive, without constantly running as root, and > "giving away the store", security wise. I wonder if mount -o users,... would do what you want. > /etc/mdev.conf supports executing commands after-creating and > before-removing a device, analagous to "writing udev rules", but > different format. busybox is actively maintained at > http://www.busybox.net/ so it should be around permanently. > > -- > Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> Thanks, Isaac Dunham _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
