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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: News draft #2 for the udev-210 upgrade (was: 209 upgrade)
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:23:25
Message-Id: pan$667f7$8cca3cfb$89cbb122$37782032@cox.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] News draft #2 for the udev-210 upgrade (was: 209 upgrade) by Samuli Suominen
1 Samuli Suominen posted on Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:43:15 +0200 as excerpted:
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3 > Here is a bit better worded news item for the upgrade.
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5 Looks much better, thanks. =:^)
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7 But...
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9 > The options CONFIG_DMIID
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11 Umm... "Don't Mind if I do"? That's what google says about DMIID, and
12 there's nothing about it on the linked wiki.g.o udev upgrade page.
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14 If I don't remember reading of it before, I believe it's a fair bet most
15 gentooers don't have a clue either, so a bit of explanation about just
16 what it is we're being asked to enable might be nice! =:^)
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18 (At least the other two, net and fhandle, make a bit of intuitive sense.)
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20 --
21 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs.
22 "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
23 and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman