Re: udev-039-6 on Fedora Core 3

[Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>]

Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 02:09:36PM +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote:
 >
>>Patch1: udev-039-static.patch
>>makes inline getpwnam and getgrnam functions, which are used for the static 
>>version of udev, which is used in initramfs
> 
> 
> Why don't you compile it with klibc? Everything should work. The
> klibc-version is also be able to parse /etc/passwd to keep the same
> permissions file in initrd.

Because maintaining another libc for all our architecures is a PITA...

  >>Patch11: udev-039-norm.patch
>>add NOREMOVE keyword to the rules. this was necessary because removable ide 
>>devices were added/removed for every open(2)/close(2)
>>added to the rules:
>>KERNEL="hd[a-z]*", NOREMOVE="1"
>>
>>this could eventually be refined by checking the "removable" 
>>sysfs-attribute, but not for partitions..
> 
> 
> I see the need for that, yes. But I would like to have a match of the
> ACTION string instead. This would make it more flexible. Something like:
> 
>   KERNEL="abc", ACTION="add", NAME="xyz"

what do you mean?

> 
> 
>>Patch22: udev-032-symlink.patch
>>replace format directives in every symlink part
> 
> 
> Not needed, I think. Should work out of the box as the format replacement
> will not stop at the spaces in the symlink string. If you have problems
> with that, then we have a bug and please tell us.

ok, I will remove that one...


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