Re: default udev rules
[Posted August 12, 2008 by corbet]
| From: |
| md-AT-Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) |
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| Re: default udev rules |
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| Sat, 9 Aug 2008 17:23:19 +0200 |
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| <20080809152319.GA16448@bongo.bofh.it> |
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| linux-hotplug <linux-hotplug-AT-vger.kernel.org> |
On Aug 09, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
> We like to remind everybody, that all distros should work towards a
> default udev rules set, instead of maintaining their own home-grown
Not going to happen, because:
- I consider my rules much more readable and elegant than yours
- anyway there are differences in the permissions (e.g. uucp vs. dialout)
- the default rules are unusable for Debian since we need to support
older kernels (currently and until Xen dom0 will be supported by new
kernels or obsoleted by KVM, >= 2.6.18)
> Please consider adapting the default rules now, and let us find a common
> solution for everybody. New packages, like the upcoming DeviceKit-*
> packages will depend on a recent udev with a proper rules setup.
You should formalize what "a proper rules setup" is, not make other
packages depend on the undocumented behaviour of a default configuration.
--
ciao,
Marco
