Re: What does last_rule really mean?

[Tom Horsley <tom.horsley@att.net>]

On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:51:03 +0900
Kay Sievers wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:20, David Zeuthen <david@fubar.dk> wrote:
> 
> > (For the record, the last_rule directive in udev is really dangerous as
> > it may have unintended consequences hiding devices like this from
> > system-level software depending on it - last time I talked to Kay he
> > mentioned that it might be nice to remove it since there's really no
> > reason to hand out rope like that.)
> 
> Yeah, let's remove that thing. It causes too much trouble and is just
> an indication that something needs to be fixed differently.

Or re-define it sensibly. One of the potential definitions I thought
about when trying to decide what it might actually mean was: "Save this
rule up and process it at the end of all the other rules". Then it
just becomes a way to get your rule to the end without having to
worry about some distro coming along and trumping your 99-zzz.rules
file with a 99-~~~.rules file :-).