Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 016 release

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 12:27:09AM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 00:13, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 11:43:22PM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 22:13, Greg KH wrote:
> > > 
> > > Once again, patch to make logging a config option.
> > > 
> > > Reason for this (since you asked for it =):
> > > - In our setup it is easy (although still annoying) .. just
> > > edit the ebuild, add logging support (or remove it) and rebuild.
> > > For say a binary distro, having the logging is useful for debugging
> > > some times, but its more a once of, or rare thing, as you do not
> > > add or change config files every day.  Sure, we can have logging
> > > by default, but many do not want ~300 lines of extra debugging in
> > > their logs is not pleasant, and they will complain.  Rebuilding
> > > the package for that binary package (given the users it is targeted
> > > to) is usually not within most users grasp.
> > 
> > Ok, I applied this patch.
> > 
> > And then I went back and fixed it so it actually would work :(
> > 
> > Here's the changes I had to make to get everything to build properly,
> > and to let us have a boolean type for the config files.
> > 
> 
> Interest sake ... when did it actually fail?  (When linking with
> klibc maybe?  Been using here without problems).

Did you build udevinfo?  udevsend?  udevd?  None of those files ended up
including the udev_log_* variable.

Anyway, it's cleaner this way :)

thanks,

greg k-h