Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 131 release

[Scott James Remnant <scott@canonical.com>]

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0On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 10:39 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:

> On Nov 07, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
> 
> > The NAME assignment is no longer special cased. If later rules assign
> > a NAME value again, the former value will be overwritten. As usual
> > for most other keys, the NAME value can be protected by doing a final
> > assignment with NAME:="<value>".
> While I like the consistency, I see the potential for user and
> package-specific rules to break spectacularly...
> 
In theory, the changes are largely backwards compatible.

I've already grepped through the Ubuntu source, and didn't find anything
relying on the old behaviour.

In fact, I found a few things that will only work with the *new*
behaviour ;)

Scott
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