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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:20:26
Message-Id: 20121119171916.GA2374@linux1
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012) by Greg KH
1 On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 09:08:52AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
2 > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:30:58AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
3 > > On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 07:06:04PM -0800, Greg KH wrote
4 > > > There isn't anything in udev to change for this. I don't understand
5 > > > why you are thinking that udev has anything to do with this issue
6 > > > at all.
7 > >
8 > > Before version 181, udev booted with a separate /usr. As of 181, it
9 > > doesn't. If anything, I would argue that udev 181 was deliberately
10 > > broken. The fact is, udev made new - and insane - rules that are simply
11 > > *invalid*. Modern udev is broken, and needs to be fixed.
12 >
13 > Is that because the 181 package moved files to /usr/ which is under the
14 > control of the Gentoo packager, or because the source release of 181
15 > upstream changed something?
16
17 As the packager of modern udev, if I have done something that upstream
18 does not support, I will fix it asap, just let me know what it was.
19
20 Thanks,
21
22 William