[Mesa-dev] [Bug 38906] Mesa compilation failure if libudev development files are not installed.

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38906

--- Comment #10 from junkmailnotread at yahoo.com 2012-05-10 04:05:39 PDT ---
> I don't think udev is a problematic requirement for embedded devices (I think
> it's hard to build one without), ...

I respectfully disagree.

The recent Linux kernel devtmpfs filesystem makes it easy to build an embedded
device without udev.

After replacing udev with devtmpfs, my HP iPAQ hx4700 still happily boots Linux
and starts a full X server (Xorg) with window manager (PAWM). The only
noticeable difference is that it boots faster!

And those embedded devices which can employ static device nodes - because their
hardware never changes - can avoid dynamic device node implementations (devfs,
udev, devtmpfs) altogether.

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