In further simplifying our udev package I'd like to move all our static dev nodes (the contents of /lib/udev/devices) from udev to udev-compat. The reason for this is that it is not needed with a devtmpfs kernel, such as kernel26{,-lts}. In other words these static nodes are only useful for self-compiled kernels without devtmpfs support.

The affected users are those who are using non-devtmpfs kernels without udev-compat, who should on the next upgrade install udev-compat. If we agree to do this I suggest an announcement to the news page in good time before the change and a note in udev.install.

Thoughts?

Cheers,

Tom