Re: new release of udev?

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 09:30:27AM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 23:58 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > Ok, now that the next kernel release is going to require people to
> > update udev, I want to make a new release.  I know the two of you have
> > been talking a lot about if the 057 release was good enough to package
> > up due to the dev.d change.
> > 
> > Did you come to any conclusions?
> 
> It wasn't continued. I'm on the way starting a big next roud of work on
> the udev package. Basically moving a lot of the SUSE version upstream.
> The SUSE package has a lot of nice features, like netlink instead of
> udevsend and initramfs-event-replay... All that can be compile options
> in the upstream package.

That's great, but I think I need to get a release out before then, due
to the kernel issue I created :)

> There is a small hole in the rules concept:
> If a custom rule want's to set custom permissions, but the system has a
> SUBSYSTEM-only rule to set default permissions, the user supplied perms
> are overridden. To prevent that, the rule can use "last_rule", but that
> prevents later RUN-rules to be executed.
> 
> That behavior was that way since the beginning, not a change in 057.
> Only the use of the RUN key is a bit difficult then. To solve that, I
> will implement deferred(question mark) assignment, like in Makefiles for
> the default system-supplied rules to use:
>   SUBSYSTEM="block", GROUP?="disk"
> 
> will only set the permissions if no other rule has already set the
> group. This should solve that small issue.

Ah, ok, thanks for the explaination.  And thanks for the proposed fix.

> > For now, we are still processing the dev.d tree by default, right?
> 
> Yes, nothing has changed in that area.

Good, it shouldn't be that tough of an upgrade then.

thanks,

greg k-h


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