From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:52:25 +0000 Subject: Re: What does last_rule really mean? Message-Id: List-Id: References: <102520090145.1929.4AE3ADC2000828BF0000078922243322829B0A02D29B9B0EBF970A049C9D0108D203019B@att.net> In-Reply-To: <102520090145.1929.4AE3ADC2000828BF0000078922243322829B0A02D29B9B0EBF970A049C9D0108D203019B@att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 18:51, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:20, David Zeuthen 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. It's gone now. Thanks, Kay