From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:23:19 +0000 Subject: Re: default udev rules Message-Id: <20080809152319.GA16448@bongo.bofh.it> MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="zhXaljGHf11kAtnf" List-Id: References: <1218277281.31266.32.camel@lgn.site> In-Reply-To: <1218277281.31266.32.camel@lgn.site> To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org --zhXaljGHf11kAtnf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Aug 09, Kay Sievers wrote: > We like to remind everybody, that all distros should work towards a > default udev rules set, instead of maintaining their own home-grown Not going to happen, because: - I consider my rules much more readable and elegant than yours - anyway there are differences in the permissions (e.g. uucp vs. dialout) - the default rules are unusable for Debian since we need to support older kernels (currently and until Xen dom0 will be supported by new kernels or obsoleted by KVM, >=3D 2.6.18) > Please consider adapting the default rules now, and let us find a common > solution for everybody. New packages, like the upcoming DeviceKit-* > packages will depend on a recent udev with a proper rules setup. You should formalize what "a proper rules setup" is, not make other packages depend on the undocumented behaviour of a default configuration. --=20 ciao, Marco --zhXaljGHf11kAtnf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkidtmcACgkQFGfw2OHuP7H2hwCgmYr7lbeYy0XriCuEcsYXYjtX 9eoAn0pGUuF6r+6SX3EwcPD1QW67ebDA =pEGo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zhXaljGHf11kAtnf--