From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Kay Sievers" Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:14:07 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 125 release Message-Id: <3ae72650807210414l6948a9e1y3ceb6c69377ab97@mail.gmail.com> List-Id: References: <1216627334.7816.12.camel@linux.site> In-Reply-To: <1216627334.7816.12.camel@linux.site> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:05, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jul 21, Kay Sievers wrote: > >> Default udev rules, which are not supposed to be edited by the user, should >> be placed in /lib/udev/rules.d/ now, to make it clear that they are private to >> the udev package and will be replaced with an update. Udev will pick up rule > Is this required by distributions which have troubles managing modified > configuration files or do you have more complex plans? We just want to split package owned rules from user/on-demand created rules. Most of the udev rules files are static databases and must not be changed, therefore do not belong in /etc. Everything will continue to work as today, if system want to use /etc only, but we suggest to move things which are not supposed to be changed by users/admins to the private rules directory. Thanks, Kay