[arch-projects] [mkinitcpio][PATCH] /dev: drop non-devtmpfs support

[Tom Gundersen]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
<vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
> I we are going to stop support non non-udev systems (anyone use static /dev
> today?)

Both mkinitcpio and initscripts have been depending on udev for a long time...

> we can remove "modprobe/mknod" from hooks: btrfs, encrypt, lvm2,
> dmraid, and mdadm, then use on-demand module loading (modules.devname)

We should probably wait for -lts kernel to be bumped, as .32 does not
support .devname. We can drop mknod though, and only do modprobe.

-t