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Subject: Re: The chosen driver for ethernet being incorrect in Alpine ISO on
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From: Farooq Karimi Zadeh <hapu@riseup.net>
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On 12/5/25 22:53, Laurent Bercot wrote:
>> It seems that `mdev` is responsible for choosing drivers. Am I right? 
>> I needed some hints to write and send a patch.
>>
>> Please don't give me fish, instead teach me how to fish. The first 
>> step is that how should I realize who is responsible for managing 
>> device drivers in Linux/Alpine.
>
>  By default, it is mdev, yes. You can select what device manager you
> use by running /usr/sbin/setup-devd. You can keep using eudev with
> Alpine if it works for you.
>
>  If you use mdev or mdevd, the file that configures their behaviour
> is /etc/mdev.conf, but that's not what explains that they would choose
> another driver than what eudev would. For that, some investigation into
> the uevent itself, and the udev rules, would be necessary. It's possible
> that eudev has an exception coded that chooses a different driver than
> what the uevent would naturally say.
>
> -- 
>  Laurent
>
Thanks. I got good clues!

Where can I read about overall architecture of Alpine?

There is https://docs.alpinelinux.org but I can't find much in it.

In general, when I have a question about Alpine internals, how do

I find me answer instead of asking directly from people?


Best Regards,

Farooq.