Udev rules and the management of the plumbing layer

Udev rules and the management of the plumbing layer

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.

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.