From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Olivier Blin Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 19:55:23 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] The Mandriva Collection Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Kay Sievers writes: >> We've also moved udevinfo in /bin, since it is needed early at boot to >> apply permissions on device nodes, before /usr is mounted. It uses the >> pam_console.dev agent, that we install as /lib/udev/pam_console.dev > > You probably just want to add the symlinks to the event environment? Yes, it would be better. Or just use a single rule that runs a sh with the for loop. > Hey, but matching on device node names with pam_console in a udev environ= ment > sounds pretty strange anyway... What's that strange? >> We also provide a script to convert hotplug usermaps to udev rules. >> Camera and scanners aren't yet handled by hal, and some drivers still >> don't use the standard way to load firmwares in the kernel. See: >> http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/Udev#Hot_plug_usermaps > > That certainly belongs to HAL. There should be almost no overlap between > the need for "user permissions" and system without HAL these days. Right, gphoto stuff is now handled in hal, it's the way to go. >> By the way, the ueagle-atm author want to use fxload in this new >> driver, is there any good alternative? A ticket is opened there: >> https://gna.org/task/?func=DEtailitem&item_id'08 But what for these fxload stuff? We still need some usermaps equivalent (i.e. apply the same action for different device IDs). >> Finally, we added some agents for ieee1394, net, and input (all copied >> from the old hotplug agents). > > IDE and input should get MODALIAS soon. Yep, that should remove some more non-standard patches/scripts. >> For a complete list of patches, scripts, rules, and packaging files, >> see: http://cvs.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/SPECS/udev/ > > Don't you have the nice persistent /dev/disk rules? But I still can see > devfs disk crap, bah ... :) I happen to use theses nice symlinks as well, in the Mandriva package, we use the etc/udev/persistent.rules file from the udev tarball. Regards --=20 Olivier Blin - Mandriva ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id=16865&op=3Dclick _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel