Re: udev breakages - was: Re: Need of an ".async_probe()" type ofcallback at driver's core - Was: Re: [PATCH] [media] drxk: change it to userequest_firmware_nowait()

From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Date: Fri Oct 05 2012 - 17:43:59 EST


On Fri, 05 Oct 2012, david@xxxxxxx wrote:
> >On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Kurt H Maier <khm@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 07:27:01PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> >>>Al, that -><- close to volunteering for maintaining that FPOS kernel-side...
> >>
> >>This would be fantastic.
> >
> >And that would solve this very much worrying issue [1], quoting:
> >"(Yes, udev on non-systemd systems is in our eyes a dead end, in case you
> >haven't noticed it yet. I am looking forward to the day when we can drop
> >that support entirely.)"
> >
> >[1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-August/006066.html
>
> I think it's worth noting that even though udev 189 was recently
> released, the not-yet-released Ubuntu 10.10 is going to be including
> udev 175.

So is Debian.

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them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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