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

[Tom Gundersen]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Last time I checked, you could use mkinitcpio without udev in some
> simple cases (especially since we started supporting devtmpfs, as the
> basic devices nodes are created by the kernel and you don't need the
> stupid device name parsing logic).

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> What makes you think mkinitcpio depends on udev?

You are right. What I meant was simply that it has depends=(udev). It
is of course possible to not include the udev hook (in the vast
majority of cases there is no point in including udev).

That said, this only holds if you use devtmpfs. /dev on tmpfs used to
be possible with the udev hook, but now it is not possible at all.

-t