From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
To: Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udev in kernel source?
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:33:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910252033.41218.elendil@planet.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200910252004.21546.Martin@lichtvoll.de>
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Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> And there is another issue: AFAIK distributors handle at least parts of
> the udev configuration including rules.
Exactly. Those "plug-in" rules installed by other packages can quite easily
conflict or overlap with a new version of udev.
For an example of how a udev update can break other programs, see
http://bugs.debian.org/545801.
> Maybe its more about the discoverability of such issue: I don't look into
> the boot log / syslog every day. ;)
Give logcheck a try. I run it on most of my systems, including my laptop.
> Hopefully upward incompatible changes in SysFS could be avoided in the
> future.
I wouldn't want to bet on that ;-)
Cheers,
FJP
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-25 19:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-25 17:33 udev in kernel source? Martin Steigerwald
2009-10-25 18:30 ` Frans Pop
2009-10-25 19:04 ` Martin Steigerwald
2009-10-25 19:33 ` Frans Pop [this message]
2009-10-25 22:37 ` Ben Nizette
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