From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261308AbTDKQ6s (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 12:58:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261309AbTDKQ6s (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 12:58:48 -0400 Received: from CPE0080c8c9b431-CM014280010574.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com ([24.114.72.97]:1541 "EHLO stargate.coplanar.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261308AbTDKQ6r (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 12:58:47 -0400 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release From: Jeremy Jackson To: Greg KH Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <20030411032424.GA3688@kroah.com> References: <20030411032424.GA3688@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1050081047.1252.4.camel@contact.skynet.coplanar.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.1 Date: 11 Apr 2003 13:10:47 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org What about read-only root fs? What about the root= kernel command line ever working? What about initrd issues? On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 23:24, Greg KH wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to finally announce the previously vapor-ware udev program that > I've talked a lot about with a lot of people over the past months. The > first, very rough cut is at: > kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-0.1.tar.gz > > But what is it? I've included an initial design document below that was > originally written by Dan Stekloff, and hacked up a bit by me. But in > short, udev is a userspace replacement for devfs. It will create and > destroy /dev entries based on the current system configuration. It does > this by watching the /sbin/hotplug events on the system, and reading > information about these events from sysfs. >