The underlying goal (in the long follow up message) seems to be the desire to move from mdev (in busybox) to mdevd (not in busybox) so the title is to some degr

The underlying goal (in the long follow up message) seems to be the desire to move from mdev (in busybox) to mdevd (not in busybox) so the title is to some degree justified. Although the situation is a complicated and subtle one, as per usual with Linux distributions.