udev in initrd
Florian La Roche
laroche at redhat.com
Mon Jul 5 16:32:12 UTC 2004
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
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