From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:51:03 +0000
Subject: Re: What does last_rule really mean?
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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.

Kay