From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:55:46 +0000 Subject: Re: default udev rules Message-Id: <20080809185545.GA13790@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <1218277281.31266.32.camel@lgn.site> In-Reply-To: <1218277281.31266.32.camel@lgn.site> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 05:23:19PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Aug 09, Kay Sievers wrote: > > > We like to remind everybody, that all distros should work towards a > > default udev rules set, instead of maintaining their own home-grown > Not going to happen, because: > - I consider my rules much more readable and elegant than yours Why not submit patches to get your versions into the upstream version if they are much better? > - anyway there are differences in the permissions (e.g. uucp vs. dialout) Minor things like this should be resolved if possible. > - the default rules are unusable for Debian since we need to support > older kernels (currently and until Xen dom0 will be supported by new > kernels or obsoleted by KVM, >= 2.6.18) Why would the rules files be dependant on kernel versions? thanks, greg k-h