On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 10:14:38AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:

And these are millions and millions of deployed
systems not using udev+systemd we are talking about,
they are not fringe hobby projects. It's not that I
personally dislike udev or anything, I kind of like
it, but these tailored distros simply don't use it
and they are huge in numbers. They need help to do
the right thing. Fixing a udev rule doesn't solve
even half the world's problems I'm afraid.

Further, even those embedded systems that do use udev (some of them do
lean heavily on modern init stuff like that and systemd, especially when
boot time is a priority) they'll still need to get the relevant udev
rule installed somehow.