Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 047 release [u]

["Martin Schlemmer [c]" <azarah@nosferatu.za.org>]

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On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 18:46 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 18:44 +0200, Martin Schlemmer [c] wrote: 
> > On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 10:58 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > 
> > > Lots of changes here in this release, see the full changelog below.
> > > Highlights are:
> > > 	- massive change with the way udevd can now work.  See
> > > 	  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.hotplug.devel/6173 for
> > > 	  more details on this (Kay's changes are now part of udev
> > > 	  proper, you don't have to apply anything for this to work,
> > > 	  just follow the directions in
> > > 	  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.hotplug.devel/6192
> > > 	  to enable this mode.)
> > 
> > Any suggestions to determining the version of the installed udev?
> > This is now during startup, to see if we can make use of using
> > udevsend as hotplug agent.  If the system was up, udevinfo could
> > be used, but that is in /usr/bin that might be on a seperate /usr.
> > I know we might move udevinfo to /bin, but that might be an issue
> > for some, and adding a -V switch to /sbin/udev might be a better
> > choice if you do not have have any nit's against it ....
> 
> Good idea, we should do that. I've added it to my tree at:
>   http://vrfy.bkbits.net:8080/udev/
> 
> The next version will print:
>   [kay@pim udev.kay]$ /sbin/udev -V
>   048
> 

Another quick question ... why was the '-d' switch to udevinfo
removed?


Thanks,

-- 
Martin Schlemmer


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