Re: default udev rules

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 07:07:54PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 12:21 +0200, 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
> > version of default rules. We should all unify as far as possible.
> > Red Hat, SUSE and Gentoo are already using the same rules files, with a
> > minimal rules set on top, in a distro specific file. We ask the rest of
> > the universe to join us, and do the same. :)
> 
> The conflation of names and permissions in the default rules is a
> problem for us, and why Ubuntu has not adopted them.

What do you mean by this?  Specifics please.

> I'm also entirely unconvinced about putting rules in /lib instead
> of /etc

Why?  Read-only things like udev rules can be in /lib just fine.

thanks,

greg k-h