[systemd-devel] udev

[David Henderson]

On 11/1/17, Mike Gilbert <floppym at gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 10:49 AM, David Henderson
> <dhenderson at digital-pipe.com> wrote:
>> On 11/1/17, Greg KH <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 10:36:16AM -0400, David Henderson wrote:
>>>> Is there a place to just get the udev code instead of all of systemD?
>>>
>>> No.
>>>
>>>> I tried looking online, but it appears that the only solo versions are
>>>> old.  I guess this got merged into systemD for some reason?
>>>
>>> Yes, it all got merged many many years ago for the obvious reasons that
>>> you will find out if you try to tear them apart :)
>>
>> lol Thanks Greg, I will give it another shot later today to see if I
>> can get things resolved with some of the suggestions provided!
>
> On the topic of ripping udev out of systemd:
>
> Some Gentoo people actually forked udev out of systemd a while ago.
> You might consider using their "eudev" fork if it meets your needs. We
> use this as the default udev implementation for Gentoo systems that do
> not use systemd. Just don't ask for support for it on this mailing
> list. ;-)
>
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Eudev
>
> https://github.com/gentoo/eudev
>

Thanks Mike, that might be a better solution for me than attempting
the systemD version!  I will give that a shot later today as well!

Dave