ueventd over libudev -- any specific reason ?

[Satish Patel]

Hi,

Probably this would have discussed before, but I couldn't locate the pointers on this..

Why Android has ueventd implementation over existing libudev ? As both are using netlink sockets underneath and we can use libudev with more options, and follow same udev rules, as we have today in any traditional linux distribution..

Any pointers ?? 

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satish

[Chinmay V S]

>> Why Android has ueventd implementation over existing libudev?

Probably because AOSP prefers non-GPL components.
libudev = GPLv2(or newer)
​ueventd = Apache​ 2.0

regards

CVS

[Glenn Kasten]

FYI, the group android-contrib is sometimes used for similar topics:

    https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/android-contrib