Re: [announce] mdevd-0.0.1.0 - a mdev-compatible uevent manager

From: Didier Kryn <didier.kryn_at_free.fr>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 23:00:06 +0100

Le 12/11/2017 à 20:24, Laurent Bercot a écrit :
>> Will there be a plan to add something roughly isomorphic to libudev?
>
> Not in the short or medium term. The problem of libudev, and this
> is shared by everything from freedesktop.org as well as systemd, is
> that its design and structure cannot be achieved without a monolithic
> implementation, and are a stealthy way to enforce vendor lock-in.
>
> In other words: if you try to implement something like libudev, you
> necessarily end up writing your own udevd, which is a useless pursuit -
> and there is no way to make it more modular.


     A most desired addition to mdev would be to provide a means for
Xorg to autoconfigure, which it does now, IIUC, with the help of
libudev. This doesn't means using the same API as libudev because I bet
Xorg people would be open to an alternative.

     Not saying this is easy, but it's not the same thing as pursuing
the whole udev...

     Didier
Received on Tue Nov 14 2017 - 22:00:06 UTC