On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 19:25 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Tuesday, March 03 2009, Victor Lowther said: > > This should arguably be done by importing the udev git repo as a submodule, > > but I am too lazy to figure out how to do that right now. > > > > I suppose this could also be done by rewriting the 95udev-rules.sh module > > for each distribution, but that is something best left to the distro > > maintainers once we acheive some sort of widespread adoption. Until then, > > stealing rules from upstream udev seems like the most portable solution. > > Stealing rules, though, means that they're almost certain to be out of > date as soon as they're present. Yep. This is intended to be a quick and dirty hack for those of us who prefer not to delve into the nuances of how each distro does things. Out of date does not mean as much to the initramfs, IMAO -- as long as we can find and mount root, it does not matter how out of date the rules are. > The right fix here is for distros not > to go off and think that they know better than upstream on how to write > udev rules. But I'll let Kay chime in if he really wants to here ;-) Mmmm... sweet scent of politics. I get the feeling that many kilobytes have been spent flaming^Wdiscussing this topic. > Jeremy > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Victor Lowther RHCE# 805008539634727 LPIC-2# LPI000140019 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
