From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:08:37 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 047 release [u] Message-Id: <1102957717.14134.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: References: <1102783489.12795.20.camel@nosferatu.lan> In-Reply-To: <1102783489.12795.20.camel@nosferatu.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 18:44 +0200, Martin Schlemmer [c] wrote: > 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? The udev db is plaintext now. The -d option was for the binary tdb file, to get an idea whats in there. A dump is just a "cat /dev/.udevdb/*" now. :) Kay ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel