Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 10:36:39
Message-Id: 51FF7FBF.5070409@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev by "Marc Stürmer"
1 On 05/08/13 13:27, Marc Stürmer wrote:
2 > Why is was forked you ask? Because of the predictable Name stuff and
3 > some People disliked the attitude of the udev programmer which was
4 > "either my way or the high way." aside choice is always Good to have so
5 > in the end IT was bound to happen sooner or later and is a Good thing to
6 > have.
7 >
8
9 nope, the forking happened before predictable network interface names.
10 and forking udev was never the smart choice here, but it would be rather
11 easy to port the old rule generator as a standalone udev helper and make
12 it use free names like lan0, wireless0.
13 as in, you don't change whole car if your tire blows out