From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: replace dev.d/ with a rule based program execution
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 01:04:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1109379844.7242.179.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050221181242.GA22891@vrfy.org>
On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 01:57 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
>On Feb 26, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>
>> Remember, it's easier for a package to drop a symlink into the
>> /etc/dev.d/ directory tree, than it is for it to modify / add a udev
>> rule.
>True, but creating a symlink in /etc/udev/rules.d/ is as easy (as long
>as distribution maintainers have discipline and properly document how
>new files should be named to have them processed at the right time).
Sure, it may be easier, but dropping brute-force executed programs to a
directory _is_ the current problem we need to address, and what all the
discussion is about, right?
Kay
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-26 1:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-21 18:12 replace dev.d/ with a rule based program execution Kay Sievers
2005-02-22 8:08 ` Hannes Reinecke
2005-02-22 17:53 ` Harald Hoyer
2005-02-23 1:08 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-02-24 20:15 ` David Zeuthen
2005-02-24 20:34 ` Kay Sievers
2005-02-24 20:45 ` David Zeuthen
2005-02-24 21:04 ` Kay Sievers
2005-02-24 21:52 ` Kay Sievers
2005-02-24 22:03 ` David Zeuthen
2005-02-25 23:26 ` Greg KH
2005-02-26 0:28 ` Kay Sievers
2005-02-26 0:57 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-02-26 1:04 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2005-02-26 1:06 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-02-26 2:22 ` Kay Sievers
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