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From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/12] Add udev rule
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:19:17 +0400
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Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
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Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Ported from OpenSUSE: Provide an udev rule that not only sets the group
> of /dev/kvm but also triggers automatic loading of the kernel modules
> during boot.
> 
[]
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 8314833..8614449 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ install:
>  		if [ -f "$$i" ]; then mv "$$i" "$$i.orig"; fi; \
>  	done
>  	/sbin/depmod -a $(DEPMOD_VERSION) -b $(DESTDIR)
> +	install -m 644 -D scripts/65-kvm.rules $(DESTDIR)/etc/udev/rules.d/65-kvm.rules

Ugh.  I wonder why kernel does not load all the hardware
modules this way still.

And why people think that whole world is udev.

Can we avoid this mess please?

/mjt