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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] >=udev-217 or >=eudev-2.1 upgrade news item
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 12:15:18
Message-Id: 545CB770.8090103@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] >=udev-217 or >=eudev-2.1 upgrade news item by Alex Xu
1 On 29/10/14 13:42, Alex Xu wrote:
2 > On 29/10/14 07:28 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote:
3 >> request for review before committing, suggestions welcome since it's
4 >> rather short what
5 >> i got to say
6 >>
7 >> thanks,
8 >> Samuli
9 >>
10 > typical news items are in the format "<packages> no longer/now do
11 > <thing>. [<thing> is <description of <thing>>.] if you need <thing>, do
12 > <steps>. if you do not need <thing>, do <steps>."
13 >
14 > [blah blah metadata, I hereby assign all copyright for the following
15 > text to the Gentoo Foundation]
16 >
17 > sys-fs/udev-217 and sys-fs/eudev-2.1 no longer provide a userspace
18 > firmware loader. If you require firmware loading support, you must use
19 > kernel 3.7 or greater with CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n. No action is
20 > required if none of your kernel modules need firmware. See [1] for more
21 > information on the upgrade.
22 >
23 > [1]: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Udev/upgrade#udev_216_to_217
24 >
25
26 The news item has been committed today. :-)
27
28 Sorry for the delay. I'm running out of excuses with my health issues. :-(
29
30 Thanks and sorry,
31 Samuli

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] >=udev-217 or >=eudev-2.1 upgrade news item Alex Xu <alex_y_xu@×××××.ca>