From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Only lookup uid/gid when applying rules
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 03:07:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1154747234.3540.100.camel@pim.off.vrfy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200608011135.25769.uberlord@gentoo.org>
On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 03:59 +0100, Roy Marples wrote:
> On Saturday 05 August 2006 03:42, you wrote:
> > > Now should the onus be on distro's to magically add foo even though it
> > > *may* be not needed, or should it be on udev to work out if it even needs
> > > to lookup the user/group "foo"?
> >
> > You should fix your base-system, which is causing the trouble, simple as
> > that.
>
> So, we have to keep in sync all user/groups udev requires?
Yes, and not only for udev.
> As opposed to adding them dynamically when the user actually installs the
> software the uses said users/groups? Or even has the hardware?
Well, just make sure you don't have the rules that require entries you
don't want to add to your system.
> Case in point - my LDAP server has no need for the user/group tss other than
> the fact that udev requires it due to a rule that will never be applied.
Sure, put it in /etc, where system groups belong.
> And you still think my base-system should be fixed?
Definitely.
> What happens down the road when you next require user foo and group
> bar due to a rule which may or may not be needed?
Just make sure, the udev rules are in sync with the rest of your system.
> I give up. It's hopeless. I just cannot convice you that it's better to be
> slow than broken.
Right, you can't. Not every system is broken like yours seems to be,
therefore we will not optimize udev for such broken systems.
Kay
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-05 3:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-01 10:35 [PATCH] Only lookup uid/gid when applying rules Roy Marples
2006-08-01 12:35 ` Kay Sievers
2006-08-01 12:54 ` Roy Marples
2006-08-01 13:12 ` Kay Sievers
2006-08-01 13:56 ` Roy Marples
2006-08-04 23:32 ` Roy Marples
2006-08-05 0:04 ` Kay Sievers
2006-08-05 0:29 ` Marco d'Itri
2006-08-05 0:40 ` Kay Sievers
2006-08-05 0:43 ` Marco d'Itri
2006-08-05 0:49 ` Kay Sievers
2006-08-05 0:52 ` Marco d'Itri
2006-08-05 2:20 ` Roy Marples
2006-08-05 2:42 ` Kay Sievers
2006-08-05 2:59 ` Roy Marples
2006-08-05 3:07 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2006-08-05 3:37 ` Roy Marples
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