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Re: udev in initrd
- From: Alan Cox <alan redhat com>
- To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core <fedora-devel-list redhat com>
- Subject: Re: udev in initrd
- Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 19:00:51 -0400
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 06:17:07PM +0200, Owen Taylor wrote:
> Clearly there has to be a policy about how devices are named; it's
> just one of the things that has to be there for a stable usable
> system. Having a simple C program that can read a policy
> description file and name devices would certainly be vastly more
> efficient way of doing things than all the shell scripts that
> udev runs.
>
> But udev exists now, and that's a big advantage for it.
Rewriting udev in C is practical, that implies the concept is right but
the implementation can be optimised. That puts it in the same class as
openoffice, gnome and most of our config tools so I don't see it as a
barrier. What has to be right is the interface
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