On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 08:30:52AM +0100, pk wrote > On 2012-01-05 01:02, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On my notebooks and test/development VMs, that's different. Those need > > udev. > > Why does it need udev specifically? Just curious... if there's a > technical need for something else than /dev population (and possible > configuration of devices, i.e. tell the kernel what bits needs to be > switched)?
I think I've found one item so far that requires udev. My laptop's graphics chip needs a binary blob from radeon-ucode. That binary blob, in turn, requires the presence of /usr/lib/libudev.so.0 which is a symlink to /usr/lib/libudev.so.0.9.3 (which is also required). I can emerge udev move or copy the 2 files over to /root unmerge udev move or copy the 2 files from /root to /usr/lib/ and it still works. Note that /usr/lib/ is a symlink to /usr/lib64 on my 64-bit gentoo. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
