[Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng 2.13-rc1]

[Moritz Heiber]

On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 14:37:22 +0200
Zbigniew Luszpinski <zbiggy at o2.pl> wrote:

> Wednesday 04 of July 2007 01:35:40 Moritz Heiber wrote:
> > Just on a very brief notice: This is not going to get through
> > without an udev update (which I will not be able to handle at the
> > moment). Please be aware of that as well.
> >
> > Cheers from Spain .. (yes, I'm very busy)
> >
> > Moritz
> 
> Raw udev (without any Lunar patches) up to and including 113 works
> very well in Lunar if someone uses monolithic kernel, or mixed one
> with all important code being monolithic. 50-udev.rules uses
> modprobe.sh and 95-udev-late.rules uses net.sh scripts. There is no
> such scripts in Lunar that is why it can break on non monolithic
> kernels if hdd support is not compiled in.
> 
> modprobe.sh on gentoo seems complicated but its aim is to modprobe
> modules. We could write shorter one. e.g. modprobe %1 to emulate
> gentoo script.

I veto any udev update that does not port our rule set over to the
newer udev. Also, any update must go through me before it is to be
committed.

Yes, I'm serious. I don't want this to become messier than it is
already. udev has become one of the most vital components of any linux
system to date thus it needs special attention .. and a guardian angel
(me).

Moritz

PS: I don't want this to sound as if I was the grand master of udev ..
but I've been working on it since day 0 thus I know what it can and
can't do ..