mdevd-conf

What is it?

mdevd-conf is a ready to use set of a configuration file and helper scripts for mdevd to set up basic userspace device management.

It aims to allow replacing systemd-udevd with the caveat of lacking libudev. This lack can be partially compensated for by using libudev-zero. It is currently very hard to switch away from systemd-udevd on desktop machines using a freedesktop.org based Wayland or X.Org software stack.

On desktops based on Arcan or on a server systems, however, it is possible to switch from systemd-udevd to mdevd(-conf).

• setup

Installation

Requirements

• A set of POSIX tools as well as a set of Linux specific tools. As described on the POSIX and kernel specific requirements page.
• A POSIX-compliant implementation of make, or GNU make
• execline. It is a run-time requirement.
• mdevd compiled with execline support. It is a run-time requirement.
• If mdev.conf is used, the users and groups: audio, dialout, disk, input, kmem, renderer, tty, usb, and video.

Licensing

mdevd-conf is free software. It is available under the ISC license.

Download

• The current released version of mdevd-conf is 0.1.0.0. You can access its checksum here.
• Alternatively, you can checkout a copy of the mdevd-conf git repository:

  git clone git://git.0x53.net/mdevd-conf

Compilation

• See the enclosed INSTALL file for installation details.

Reference