From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brownell Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 23:03:37 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb.agent should processes usermap before other maps. Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org >> 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ 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