Accepted initramfs-tools 0.40ubuntu1 (source)

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 01:27:11PM -0800, Karl Hegbloom wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 19:00 +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> >    * Remove udev-specific code:
> >      - depend on the version of udev that includes all of these things itself
> >      - remove udevstart from init
> >      - remove code to move /dev to the real filesystem from init
> 
> Why?
> 
> >      - remove /sys-based module loading from load_modules
> >      - remove boot_events functions from load_modules
> >      - remove udev copy from mkinitramfs
> >      - remove udev hook script
> 
> I'm lost now.  What happened to udev?

Maintaining specific handling for udev in initramfs-tools had some
annoying disadvantages, because it required that initramfs-tools and
udev be updated in sync, which was especially painful when major changes
happened in udev (as now). It's all been moved to hook scripts in udev
now.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]