udevd [was: Re: [RFC/PATCH] input_id: add touchpad quirks rules

[Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>]

Hello Kay,

Kay Sievers [2010-05-13 15:29 +0200]:
> >  (2) I hear that udevd will eventually go away, and its probers will
> >     be fanned out to the subsystem daemons, therefore leaving the
> >     udev package as a relatively stable library only.
> 
> Oh, that's interesting news. :) What makes you think of that? 

Scott just gave a presentation about the plumbing layer, and mentioned
that. It came as quite a surprise to me, too, and that's why I wrote "I
hear", not "it is" :) I'll ask him about this.

> What would match on and deliver all the kernel events to subcribers?

As far as I understood it, libudev would stay for client-side programs
(reading events from netlink and enumerate from /sys), and the udev
database would stay for the properties, but the udev daemon
would/could go away.

Thanks,

Martin
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