Re: default udev rules

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 05:23:19PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Aug 09, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> 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

Why not submit patches to get your versions into the upstream version if
they are much better?

> - anyway there are differences in the permissions (e.g. uucp vs. dialout)

Minor things like this should be resolved if possible.

> - 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, >= 2.6.18)

Why would the rules files be dependant on kernel versions?

thanks,

greg k-h