From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb.agent should processes usermap before other maps.
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 23:03:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-102703327732408@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-102696506820116@msgid-missing>
>> I'd rather not have distros diverge needlessly. The reason
>> we have so many incompatible Linux sysadmin toolsets is ...
>> well, I'm sure you can figure it out! :) The goal IMO is
>> to have one set of tools, and I'm not convinced there's a
>> reason to diverge here.
>
> Yes, but I'm not sure why does it matter what Debian does.
Because if you solve the same problem in a different way,
you're creating another problem. Maybe we need to do so,
but you ought to at least try to avoid creating such problems
in the first place -- so they don't need re-fixing again.
> They probably had to do something because current hotplug
> doesn't support multiple usermaps. I'm sure they'd be happy
> to switch to new hotplug. If they don't they could still
> generate /etc/hotplug/usb/usermap.debian and it will work.
I'd be pleased to see you work this issue with the Debian
maintainer of hotplug. Maybe he would be; maybe he's seen
some other issues that fit in here too.
- Dave
> We could also preserve 100% compatibility with older Debian
> by doing something like this
> MAPS="$HOTPLUG_DIR/usb.usermap $MAP_USERMAP_DIR/usermap.*"
> ie process old usb.usermap in addition to new maps.
> So, old Debian packages that use usb.usermap generator will still
> work. And new onces will switch to more convenient way of doing it.
>
> btw Generating global usb.usermap doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
> My patch is much simpler.
>
> Max
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-18 23:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-18 3:59 [PATCH] usb.agent should processes usermap before other maps Maksim (Max) Krasnyanskiy
2002-07-18 5:35 ` David Brownell
2002-07-18 16:49 ` [PATCH] usb.agent should processes usermap before other Maksim (Max) Krasnyanskiy
2002-07-18 17:19 ` [PATCH] usb.agent should processes usermap before other maps David Brownell
2002-07-18 17:47 ` [PATCH] usb.agent should processes usermap before other Maksim (Max) Krasnyanskiy
2002-07-18 17:51 ` [PATCH] usb.agent should processes usermap before other maps Johannes Erdfelt
2002-07-18 20:17 ` [PATCH] usb.agent should processes usermap before other Maksim (Max) Krasnyanskiy
2002-07-18 20:55 ` [PATCH] usb.agent should processes usermap before other maps David Brownell
2002-07-18 21:40 ` [PATCH] usb.agent should processes usermap before other Maksim (Max) Krasnyanskiy
2002-07-18 21:49 ` [PATCH] usb.agent should processes usermap before other maps David Brownell
2002-07-18 22:03 ` [PATCH] usb.agent should processes usermap before other Maksim (Max) Krasnyanskiy
2002-07-18 23:03 ` David Brownell [this message]
2002-07-18 23:47 ` Maksim (Max) Krasnyanskiy
2002-08-09 18:22 ` [PATCH] usb.agent should processes usermap before other maps David Brownell
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