On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:56:31 -0200 Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Bruce, > > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 4:36 AM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > udev-177 appears to require kmod3, yet the kmod3 announcement says: > > > > "I'd not say distros could start shipping > > kmod instead of module-init-tools yet." > > > > There appears to be a miscommunication here. > > > There isn't. > > If udev doesn't care about kmod's man pages, then it's good to start > using libkmod. For the udev's use cases, libkmod is pretty complete. > It can be installed in parallel to module-init-tools too if distros > don't seem confident to make a step further and replace it. > > So far Archlinux seems to be the first one. kmod is in their testing > repo and they helped us a lot to fix some bugs. Then I'd say kmod 4 > will be ready enough for distros. Agreed on that. We don't have it in Slackware yet, but I've been running it locally since v2 (and fully replaced m-i-t since v3), and aside from a few minor issues (that have mostly been fixed), it's fine. -RW -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-modules" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
