Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 003 release | From | Martin Schlemmer <> | Date | Tue, 21 Oct 2003 03:11:19 +0200 |
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On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 02:50, Greg KH wrote:
> > Three questions if you do not mind: > > > > 1) Is it possible to maintain naming of tarball/version ? Meaning, > > say we forget about the 003 version, could the next be 0.4, or even > > 0.3.1 or whatever ? Just changing makes trying to keep packages > > sane a hassle. Thanks :) > > The naming will be consistant from now on. Next release will be 004, > followed by 005, and so on. Remember, version numbers mean nothing :) >
Well, if you had an 0.2 already, 003 sorda comes and screw the pooch (if trying to work with a package manager - although it seems we are OK with ours seeing 003 as the later) :)
> > If not, any idea if/when udev will start following official > > libsysfs? Yes, not a biggie, but it would be nice to have > > sysfsutils its own package :) > > I just got a patch today from Dan that merged the latest version of > libsysfs into udev. It's in the udev bk tree already. libsysfs will > always be a copy in the udev tree, as udev links statically, and it > keeps the build process and debug process much easier. > > sysfsutils can still be its own package, other programs are starting to > use libsysfs already. >
Ok, ill have a look at the bk tree at som stage, thanks.
> > 3) Any plans to have namedev support wildcarts ? Like: > > > > dsp*:root:audio:0660 > > audio*:root:audio:0660 > > midi*:root:audio:0660 > > mixer*:root:audio:0660 > > Yes, I would love to support that. Care to send a patch? :) >
:P I wont promise, as my schedule is a bit tight, but I'll send along if I get to cook something up.
> Of course you need a kernel patch for the sound class that is only > available in my kernel tree right now for sound devices to work with > udev... >
Need help testing ? :) (Yes, I am a lazy bastard, and a patch against test8 would help if you needed the testing)
Thanks,
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Martin Schlemmer Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer Cape Town, South Africa
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