Re: About udev rule removal

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On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Pacho Ramos <pacho@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> El vie, 29-06-2012 a las 22:23 +0200, Pacho Ramos escribió:
>> I would like to know what distributions not relying on systemd are
>> supposed to get bluetoothd autostarted now that udev rule was dropped:
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=bluetooth/bluez.git;a=commit;h=2ea98a6a043710ad4958355b62c682b4767f292e
>>
>> Looks like we go back from udev rule to manually starting bluetoothd all
>> the time, even if bluetooth device is not connected? Why are we going
>> back to old behavior?
>>
>> Thanks for the info
>
> Should we revert that change downstream if we are not going to rely on
> systemd and until udev is changed to break that setup (forcing us to go
> to old "always running" behavior)?

Udev rules are not supposed to spawn daemons. It never was. And now if
you do that udev will kill your daemon after a certain timeout. You'd
need to a) maintain that rule by yourself and b) patch udev to not do
that.


Lucas De Marchi
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