From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri)
Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:30:59 +0000
Subject: Re: default udev rules
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On Aug 09, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:

> > - 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?
They are available and up to date in rules/debian/*, nobody ever
expressed any interest in this.

> > - anyway there are differences in the permissions (e.g. uucp vs. dialou=
t)
> Minor things like this should be resolved if possible.
These are not minor things, so at best the common rules would need to
be patched.

> > - 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, >=3D 2.6.18)
> Why would the rules files be dependant on kernel versions?
Workarounds, etc.

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ciao,
Marco

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