Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel
From: Bill Davidsen
Date: Tue Dec 06 2005 - 16:09:37 EST
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.
--
-bill davidsen (davidsen@xxxxxxx)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me
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