Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: [gentoo-project] With regard to udev stabilization

[Pandu Poluan]

I think we also ought to contact Linus, to have some input on what the
forked-udev (vdev? gdev? nlpdev?) *shouldn't* be. Lest we tread the same
path that led to him calling udev 'stupid'.

Just my 2 cents. Probably worthless :-|

Rgds,
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 On Nov 13, 2012 4:26 PM, "Dale" <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:

> Michael Hampicke wrote:
> > Am 13.11.2012 04:20, schrieb Dale:
> >>
> >> -------- Original Message --------
> >> Subject:     [gentoo-project] With regard to udev stabilization
> >> Date:        Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:40:53 -0500
> >> From:        Richard Yao <ryao@g.o>
> >> Reply-To:    gentoo-project@l.g.o
> >> To:  gentoo-project@l.g.o
> >>
> >>
> >> Richard Yao wrote:
> >>
> >>> Dear Everyone,
> >>>
> >>> It is no secret that many of us are unhappy with the direction that
> udev
> >>> has taken under the leadership of the systemd developers. That includes
> >>> Linus Torvalds, who is 'leery of the fact that the udev maintenance
> >>> seems to have gone into some "crazy mode" where they have made changes
> >>> that were known to be problematic, and are pure and utter stupidity.'
> >>>
> >>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/2/505
> >>>
> >>> After speaking with several other Gentoo developers that share Linus'
> >>> concerns, I have decided to form a team to fork udev. Our plan is to
> >>> eliminate the separate /usr requirement from our fork, among other
> >>> things. We will announce the project later this week.
> >>>
> >>> I understand that the council is scheduled to vote on a topic related
> to
> >>> udev stabilization. Would it be possible to delay the vote for another
> >>> month so that we have time to get organized?
> >>>
> >>> Yours truly,
> >>> Richard Yao
> >>>
> >> Well, it appears we have someone willing to fork udev.  Yeppie !!   Me,
> I'm looking forward to seeing how this works and giving it a test run when
> it gets ready.  Since it is a fork, shouldn't be to long, I hope.
> >>
> >> I wonder what they will name it tho.
> >>
> >> Dale
> >>
> >> :-)  :-)
> >>
> > What about gdev (gentoo dev) :)
> >
> >
>
> That could work but since Linus thinks it is stupid the way udev is
> headed, I was thinking about smartdev.  That would be the opposite of
> stupiddev I guess.  lol
>
> I don't care what the name is, I just hope it works out not only for
> Gentoo but for other distros that don't like the direction udev is going.
>
> Thanks to Richard and everyone else who is going to be working on this.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>
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