From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lennart Poettering Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 14:06:09 +0000 Subject: Re: udevd [was: Re: [RFC/PATCH] input_id: add touchpad quirks Message-Id: <20100513140607.GB12639@tango.0pointer.de> List-Id: References: <20100513134742.GB1768@piware.de> In-Reply-To: <20100513134742.GB1768@piware.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 13.05.10 15:47, Martin Pitt (martin.pitt@ubuntu.com) wrote: > Hello Kay, >=20 > Kay Sievers [2010-05-13 15:29 +0200]: > > > =A0(2) I hear that udevd will eventually go away, and its probers will > > > =A0 =A0 be fanned out to the subsystem daemons, therefore leaving the > > > =A0 =A0 udev package as a relatively stable library only. > >=20 > > Oh, that's interesting news. :) What makes you think of that?=20 >=20 > Scott just gave a presentation about the plumbing layer, and mentioned > that. It came as quite a surprise to me, too, and that's why I wrote "I > hear", not "it is" :) I'll ask him about this. >=20 > > What would match on and deliver all the kernel events to subcribers? >=20 > As far as I understood it, libudev would stay for client-side programs > (reading events from netlink and enumerate from /sys), and the udev > database would stay for the properties, but the udev daemon > would/could go away. OMG! Ubuntu is forking udev! This is ... funny... Lennart --=20 Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4