I've been wondering lately whether there is a good reason why even udev violates the "one thing and do it well" principle set forth by the co worker of the designer of C and Unix as it not only dynamically creates devices like mdev does but also hotplugging like hotplugd on OpenBSD. Hopefully there is a config option or you would need an alternative if you want static dev files and hotplugging.
This is completely wrong. Udev does not create any device nudes.
Seems this has changed and my source was out of date (2010 or 2011) or based on an older embedded kernel. More to find out but looks like I can easily pick and choose and test from mknod devtmpfs or udev/mdev and any delays are more manageable, brill. http://lwn.net/Articles/331818/ http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/830722 Thanks -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) _______________________________________________________________________