Re: default udev rules

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 09:30:59PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> 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.

It seems they are now :)

Why not send patches?

> > > - anyway there are differences in the permissions (e.g. uucp vs. dialout)
> > 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.

Like Kay pointed out, there are differences, like this, and that's fine,
but permissions on specific nodes are minor things.  Consistant names
are the real issue here.

> > > - 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?
> Workarounds, etc.

Such as?

thanks,

greg k-h