From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott James Remnant Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:59:18 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 131 release Message-Id: <1226062758.2222.4.camel@quest> MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-3jZIv3U0aEe55pFPTEx4" List-Id: References: <1226039269.4100.0.camel@nga> In-Reply-To: <1226039269.4100.0.camel@nga> To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org --=-3jZIv3U0aEe55pFPTEx4 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 0On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 10:39 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Nov 07, Kay Sievers wrote: >=20 > > The NAME assignment is no longer special cased. If later rules assign > > a NAME value again, the former value will be overwritten. As usual > > for most other keys, the NAME value can be protected by doing a final > > assignment with NAME:=3D"". > While I like the consistency, I see the potential for user and > package-specific rules to break spectacularly... >=20 In theory, the changes are largely backwards compatible. I've already grepped through the Ubuntu source, and didn't find anything relying on the old behaviour. In fact, I found a few things that will only work with the *new* behaviour ;) Scott --=20 Scott James Remnant scott@canonical.com --=-3jZIv3U0aEe55pFPTEx4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkkUO6YACgkQSnQiFMl4yK7U1gCgpvlrSNj1rks1jN3WZpcHMXmw zgwAn30vSHULX3s6VWrdxHSiLH7kAcv6 =mGcW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-3jZIv3U0aEe55pFPTEx4--