On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:51:03 +0900 Kay Sievers wrote: > On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:20, David Zeuthen <david@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > (For the record, the last_rule directive in udev is really dangerous as > > it may have unintended consequences hiding devices like this from > > system-level software depending on it - last time I talked to Kay he > > mentioned that it might be nice to remove it since there's really no > > reason to hand out rope like that.) > > Yeah, let's remove that thing. It causes too much trouble and is just > an indication that something needs to be fixed differently. Or re-define it sensibly. One of the potential definitions I thought about when trying to decide what it might actually mean was: "Save this rule up and process it at the end of all the other rules". Then it just becomes a way to get your rule to the end without having to worry about some distro coming along and trumping your 99-zzz.rules file with a 99-~~~.rules file :-). -- 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
