[OpenWrt-Devel] [RFC] replace outdated udev by eudev?

[John Crispin]

On 07/02/2016 10:53, Daniel Golle wrote:
> Hi John!
> 
> On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 10:28:25AM +0100, John Crispin wrote:
>> maybe i am missing the point but why would you want udev on your system
>> in the first place ?
> 
> There are situations when udev is currently the only way, such are:
> * more than one 3g/wwan/usb-serial device and the need to differentiate
>   them based on their serial number rather than on the order the kernel
>   probes them.
>   I really like those /dev/serial/by-id/ symlinks, because they prevent
>   comgt to try speaking with my solar-charger and collectd from trying
>   to query battery-voltage and PWM currents from the 3G modem -- both
>   are detected as usb-serial devices, thus /dev/ttyUSB* device nodes
>   are created in the order they are probed -- which differs e.g.
>   depending on cold start or warm reset of the OS.
> * similar things apply when having multiple V4L, ALSA or HID devices...
> * udev rules are needed for certain USB devices to be accessible for
>   non-root users
> 

which brings us back to my second question, why not add these features
to procd ? my experience is that these features can be implemented in
100 lines +/-


> I agree that the both implementations (udev and eudev) are over-bloated
> and I'm sure that the use-cases I'm interested in can be provided by
> a few dozend lines of code and a few kilobytes in binary instead of
> that 1.2M executable which includes support for all sorts of weird
> legacy stuff like 3.5" floppy drivers conencted via USB...
> 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
> Daniel
> 
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