From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 01:04:04 +0000 Subject: Re: replace dev.d/ with a rule based program execution Message-Id: <1109379844.7242.179.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: References: <20050221181242.GA22891@vrfy.org> In-Reply-To: <20050221181242.GA22891@vrfy.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 01:57 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: >On Feb 26, Greg KH 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 ------------------------------------------------------- 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://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click _______________________________________________ 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