No more MAKEDEV?

[David A. Wheeler]

> On Thursday 18 September 2008 07:41:12 pm Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > there's an already-upstream solution
> > of putting device nodes in /lib/udev/devices. Why not just use this,
> > remove MAKEDEV, simplify start_udev, and boot faster?

Please don't _remove_ MAKEDEV.
I believe the FHS requires the existence of MAKEDEV, anyway; see:
 http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#DEVDEVICEFILES
There are a lot of reasons to manually create a device in /dev.

Nothing requires that the _initial_ boot use MAKEDEV, though.
If the upstream solution works and is really sound, you could use it,
and leave MAKEDEV around as a "manual override" switch.

Has this gotten enough testing, though? A post-freeze change
in fundamental boot methods might leave systems unbootable.

--- David A. Wheeler