Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 06 Dec 2005 16:10:12 -0500 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel |
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Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 09:58:54AM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > >>If a new udev config is needed with every new kernel, why isn't it in >>the kernel tarball? Is that what you mean by "broken distro >>configuration?" The info should be in /proc or /sys and not in an >>external config file, particularly if a different versions per-kernel is >>needed and people are trying new kernels and perhaps falling back to the >>old. > > > Every distro has different needs for its device naming and groups and > other intergration into the boot process. To force all of them to unify > on one-grand-way-of-doing-things would just not work out at all.
Did I say that. No, I said it would be desirable to provide a working config with the kernel, to which something could be symlinked. This no more "forces" distributions to do anything than LSB. It would provide a default, it would provide something working, and if I didn't like it I could change it. But I wouldn't have to try and change thing way up in initrd so I can boot one kernel or another... > > Look at all of the variations in the udev tarball between the different > vendor configurations (we put them in there for other people to base > their distro off of, if they want to.) > > So providing this config in the kernel will just not work, sorry.
We have standard libraries, header files, system calls, why is a standard in this case a bad thing? Actually not even a standard, perhaps, a default. It wouldn't make it one bit harder to have custom names, for those who believe different is better.
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