From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martin Schlemmer [c]" Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:11:08 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 047 release [u] Message-Id: <1103303468.12935.4.camel@nosferatu.lan> MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-fPjOIdCiNGq6LSyjdM2H" List-Id: References: <1102783489.12795.20.camel@nosferatu.lan> In-Reply-To: <1102783489.12795.20.camel@nosferatu.lan> To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org --=-fPjOIdCiNGq6LSyjdM2H Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 16:08 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 07:59:53PM +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:=20 > > > > On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 10:58 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > >=20 > > > > > Lots of changes here in this release, see the full changelog belo= w. > > > > > 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.) > > > >=20 > > > > 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 .... > > >=20 > > > Good idea, we should do that. I've added it to my tree at: > > > http://vrfy.bkbits.net:8080/udev/ > > >=20 > > > The next version will print: > > > [kay@pim udev.kay]$ /sbin/udev -V > > > 048 > > >=20 > >=20 > > Ah, great, thanks. > >=20 > > Greg, sorda OT for this list, but mind adding patch to portage, > > then I can whip up some /sbin/rc changes .... >=20 > The 049 version is in portage, and you can use that now. >=20 > While we're OT, and Gentoo specific, what about moving all of the udev > specific startup and shutdown stuff to a separate file, owned by the > udev package? Or is that just too messy now? >=20 > Just trying to make your life easier. >=20 Hmm - thing is things are currently in flux on the whole rc side (redoing some code, cleanups, etc), and it uses things that are pretty tied to baselayout proper that are part of the stuff fluxing. Also I guess we want to do whatever for the devfs die-hards as well, along with a split or three that will happen at some stage due to the bsd support, as well as my threatened rewrite of some stuff when I get the time eventually ... Maybe later when we done restructuring ... Thanks, --=20 Martin Schlemmer --=-fPjOIdCiNGq6LSyjdM2H Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBBwxMsqburzKaJYLYRAp4HAKCJIq1iJEqOUKxzWwgX6aqfvvWxHgCdEzl2 zo9JUgw+EzpuQH1YX6UaX7E= =mCzy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-fPjOIdCiNGq6LSyjdM2H-- ------------------------------------------------------- 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