Udev rules and the management of the plumbing layer

Posted Aug 13, 2008 1:19 UTC (Wed) by Los__D (guest, #15263)
In reply to: Udev rules and the management of the plumbing layer by jspaleta
Parent article: Udev rules and the management of the plumbing layer

The Ubuntu developer seems to be genuinely interested in an improved set of rules for _all_.

The Debian dev is the only one that doesn't seem to be interested in harmony at all, unless
everyone else does it his way...

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Udev rules and the management of the plumbing layer

Posted Aug 13, 2008 5:35 UTC (Wed) by TRS-80 (guest, #1804) [Link] (1 responses)

Marco d'Itri is a bit of a stick-in-the-mud - he refused to add /dev/random to the mini-/dev udev uses to bootstrap itself, causing our netbooted machines to hang as NSS-LDAP couldn't get any randomness to start TLS. This is despite /dev/random being in every Linux kernel for years - it's impossible to compile out. It's bug 412328 which I lost interest in when the machines in question started having hardware problems.

Udev rules and the management of the plumbing layer

Posted Aug 13, 2008 17:21 UTC (Wed) by Wummel (guest, #7591) [Link]

Marco is known to be difficult to deal with, reminding me of Debians Branden Robinson in his
early days (before he calmed down a little bit :-)

Hopefully Marcos contributions to udev will be as fruitful as Brandens efforts with the X
Window System. I'd really like to see some patches exchanged between Debian and upstream
authors.