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

[Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>]

On Thu, 13.05.10 15:47, Martin Pitt (martin.pitt@ubuntu.com) wrote:

> 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.

OMG! Ubuntu is forking udev! This is ... funny...

Lennart

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