udev in initrd

[Jeremy Katz]

On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 13:17 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 11:44:51AM +0200, Owen Taylor wrote:
> > (*) 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.
> 
> Um, I have never heard of such objections before.  If _anyone_ has _any_
> questions/issue/objections/rants about the implementation of udev, or
> any other kind of complaints about udev, please let me, and the
> linux-hotplug-devel mailing list know.  Without us knowing, nothing will
> change :)

I've replied with such to _every_ request/question about udev here.  I'm
working on writing up something more complete to send, but 24 hour days
plus a variety of Life things to deal with have kept me from having the
time to actually get it done.  Things should settle down for me later
this week and I'll manage to get it written up.  The short and simple
version is that by not having any policy dictated, the system becomes
overly complicated and difficult to deal with.

Jeremy