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From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>
Date: Sun, 27 May 2012 20:51:33 +0000
Subject: Re: systemd 183 and /lib/udev/devices/
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On Sun, 27 May 2012, Kay Sievers wrote:

> On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu> wrote:
>> I see in the NEWS file:
>>
>> "udev: /lib/udev/devices/ are not read anymore; systemd-tmpfiles should be
>> used to create dead device nodes as workarounds for broken subsystems."
>>
>> What sort of "broken subsystems" are we talking about here?
>
> The only one still known is the parport driver, where cups might rely
> on module-autoloading by accessing of /dev/lp0.
>
> There are around 3 users in the world which need that. :)

Fine, I'm not one of them.

>> I'm currently running systemd 44 and udev 182 (without init 
>> scripts) and I have "pts" and "shm" under /lib/udev/devices/. 
>> [...]
>
> How can you run udev without an init script?

I mean with a scriptless systemd setup.

Allin Cottrell