Re: [PATCH] static-nodes: indicate that creation of static nodes should only happen at boot

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On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 12:23:53PM +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 3:31 AM, Lucas De Marchi
> > <lucas.de.marchi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> udev will only manage static nodes that exist at the time udev is started, so
> >>> creating static nodes later on will likely not behave as expected. In
> >>> particular, recreating the static nodes at run-time will reset any permissions
> >>> udev may have applied to the nodes at boot.
> >>>
> >>> See <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1147248> and the discussion
> >>> following <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.systemd.devel/23795>.
> >>>
> >>> Note that this requires (the yet to be released) systemd v217 or a backport
> >>> of systemd patch 8c94052ee543c3598a3c7b0c46688150aa2c6168.
> >>
> >> Is this patch going to systemd-stable?
> >
> > I think that makes sense, as the current status is broken in distros.
> > Not entirely sure though, as the --boot logic is new functionality.
> > Zbigniew, what do you think?
Yeah, I'll pull it into -stable.

(But the kmod patch doesn't really depend on your patch 'units:
tmpfiles-setup-dev - allow unsafe file creation to happen in /dev at
boot', just on the --boot functionality, which I think was done for F20,
so can be considered available.)

Zbyszek

> Sorry, I misread the commit logs. The --boot logic is already in
> stable, and I think my follow up patch should also go there.
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