Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 003 release

From: Martin Schlemmer
Date: Mon Oct 20 2003 - 20:11:49 EST


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,

--

Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa


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