From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 18:33:12 +0000 Subject: Re: Bug#286040: please allow permissions.d to follow symlinks Message-Id: <20041217183312.GB20631@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <20041217083115.GA4050@wonderland.linux.it> In-Reply-To: <20041217083115.GA4050@wonderland.linux.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 06:45:00PM +0100, Stefan Schweizer wrote: > On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 08:45:48 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > Actually I was considering just dropping the permissions.d file > > entirely, as I think we don't need it anymore. But I have not had the > > time to determine if this is possible or not just yet. > > This sounds cool, but it will also mean, that we have bigger rules, as > most of the rules will need a GROUP="" statement then. That is true. > > Um, I have no control over the debian udev rules files, I just mirror in > > the udev tree what the maintainer gives to me. > > > I use gentoo, but why do we even have different rules.d files? Can we > not make as much as possible common in them? What are the differences > between the distributions? Unfortunatly, lots of little things. > With this system we have some rules missing in every distributions > rules file, because bugfixes and new features are commonly applied > only to one rules file. Very true. Any help in making sure all rules are in all distro files is greatly appreciated. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- 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