On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 09:30:59PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Aug 09, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > - I consider my rules much more readable and elegant than yours > > Why not submit patches to get your versions into the upstream version if > > they are much better? > They are available and up to date in rules/debian/*, nobody ever > expressed any interest in this. It seems they are now :) Why not send patches? > > > - anyway there are differences in the permissions (e.g. uucp vs. dialout) > > Minor things like this should be resolved if possible. > These are not minor things, so at best the common rules would need to > be patched. Like Kay pointed out, there are differences, like this, and that's fine, but permissions on specific nodes are minor things. Consistant names are the real issue here. > > > - the default rules are unusable for Debian since we need to support > > > older kernels (currently and until Xen dom0 will be supported by new > > > kernels or obsoleted by KVM, >= 2.6.18) > > Why would the rules files be dependant on kernel versions? > Workarounds, etc. Such as? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
