Re: [gentoo-user] mdev for udev substitution instructions web page is up

2012-03-18 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 11:37:49PM +0100, Sebastian Pipping wrote
 On 03/17/2012 03:51 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
  The page will be permanently under construction, i.e. evolving as
  we find out more about how mdev works.
 
 Unless you want to maintain total control of the data flow I would
 suggest turning that page into a new wiki page at
 https://wiki.gentoo.org/ to ease contribution to others and to
 increase availability and accessibility of that content.

  Probably the best thing to do in the long run. I've never done any
wiki editing/posting, so I'll take a day or 2 to read up on it.  The
help page looks rather complex.  Or are there any volunteers here who
can copy the contents of the web page to a wiki page?  I'll gladly
change my webpage to a pointer to the wiki page.

  On a tangent, is that a better tutorial on wiki pages anywhere?

-- 
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org



Re: [gentoo-user] mdev for udev substitution instructions web page is up

2012-03-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 3:29 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:
 On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 11:37:49PM +0100, Sebastian Pipping wrote
 On 03/17/2012 03:51 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
  The page will be permanently under construction, i.e. evolving as
  we find out more about how mdev works.

 Unless you want to maintain total control of the data flow I would
 suggest turning that page into a new wiki page at
 https://wiki.gentoo.org/ to ease contribution to others and to
 increase availability and accessibility of that content.

  Probably the best thing to do in the long run. I've never done any
 wiki editing/posting, so I'll take a day or 2 to read up on it.  The
 help page looks rather complex.  Or are there any volunteers here who
 can copy the contents of the web page to a wiki page?  I'll gladly
 change my webpage to a pointer to the wiki page.

First stab: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev

I don't know the Gentoo wiki's style policies, but I do know MediaWiki
reasonably well. I did take license to edit for language/linguistic
style, but not for substantive comment. Please go through and correct
anything that seems broken. It's almost 4:30AM where I am, and I
really ought to be sleeping, so I almost certainly mussed something
up. Pretty sure I switched styles about halfway through, too.

You should find the MediaWiki syntax reasonably accessible; just click
'edit' at the top of the page and compare what the 'raw' form looks
like with what the results look like.


  On a tangent, is that a better tutorial on wiki pages anywhere?

MediaWiki.org has the best content. Generally, you'd play around in a
sandbox page of your own (on whatever wiki site you have an account
on) to get a feel for things.

-- 
:wq



Re: [gentoo-user] mdev for udev substitution instructions web page is up

2012-03-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 4:38 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 3:29 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:
 On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 11:37:49PM +0100, Sebastian Pipping wrote
 On 03/17/2012 03:51 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
  The page will be permanently under construction, i.e. evolving as
  we find out more about how mdev works.

 Unless you want to maintain total control of the data flow I would
 suggest turning that page into a new wiki page at
 https://wiki.gentoo.org/ to ease contribution to others and to
 increase availability and accessibility of that content.

  Probably the best thing to do in the long run. I've never done any
 wiki editing/posting, so I'll take a day or 2 to read up on it.  The
 help page looks rather complex.  Or are there any volunteers here who
 can copy the contents of the web page to a wiki page?  I'll gladly
 change my webpage to a pointer to the wiki page.

 First stab: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev

 I don't know the Gentoo wiki's style policies, but I do know MediaWiki
 reasonably well. I did take license to edit for language/linguistic
 style, but not for substantive comment. Please go through and correct
 anything that seems broken. It's almost 4:30AM where I am, and I
 really ought to be sleeping, so I almost certainly mussed something
 up. Pretty sure I switched styles about halfway through, too.

 You should find the MediaWiki syntax reasonably accessible; just click
 'edit' at the top of the page and compare what the 'raw' form looks
 like with what the results look like.


  On a tangent, is that a better tutorial on wiki pages anywhere?

 MediaWiki.org has the best content. Generally, you'd play around in a
 sandbox page of your own (on whatever wiki site you have an account
 on) to get a feel for things.

BTW, where would one go to get involved in organization of the wiki? I
found myself wishing for templates for consistent formatting of things
like files, one-liners and naming of ebuilds, but I don't think I
ought to simply create the templates I'm looking for without talking
with someone first.

-- 
:wq



Re: [gentoo-user] mdev for udev substitution instructions web page is up

2012-03-18 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 18, 2012 3:45 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 4:38 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
  On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 3:29 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
wrote:
  On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 11:37:49PM +0100, Sebastian Pipping wrote
  On 03/17/2012 03:51 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
   The page will be permanently under construction, i.e. evolving as
   we find out more about how mdev works.
 
  Unless you want to maintain total control of the data flow I would
  suggest turning that page into a new wiki page at
  https://wiki.gentoo.org/ to ease contribution to others and to
  increase availability and accessibility of that content.
 
   Probably the best thing to do in the long run. I've never done any
  wiki editing/posting, so I'll take a day or 2 to read up on it.  The
  help page looks rather complex.  Or are there any volunteers here who
  can copy the contents of the web page to a wiki page?  I'll gladly
  change my webpage to a pointer to the wiki page.
 
  First stab: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev
 
  I don't know the Gentoo wiki's style policies, but I do know MediaWiki
  reasonably well. I did take license to edit for language/linguistic
  style, but not for substantive comment. Please go through and correct
  anything that seems broken. It's almost 4:30AM where I am, and I
  really ought to be sleeping, so I almost certainly mussed something
  up. Pretty sure I switched styles about halfway through, too.
 
  You should find the MediaWiki syntax reasonably accessible; just click
  'edit' at the top of the page and compare what the 'raw' form looks
  like with what the results look like.
 
 
   On a tangent, is that a better tutorial on wiki pages anywhere?
 
  MediaWiki.org has the best content. Generally, you'd play around in a
  sandbox page of your own (on whatever wiki site you have an account
  on) to get a feel for things.

 BTW, where would one go to get involved in organization of the wiki? I
 found myself wishing for templates for consistent formatting of things
 like files, one-liners and naming of ebuilds, but I don't think I
 ought to simply create the templates I'm looking for without talking
 with someone first.


I suggest asking in gentoo-project. The Powers That Be™ are obligatory
members there...

Rgds,


Re: [gentoo-user] mdev for udev substitution instructions web page is up

2012-03-18 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Fri, 16 Mar 2012 22:51:00 -0400
schrieb Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org:

   The instructions for replacing udev with mdev are now up at
 http://www.waltdnes.org/mdev/  validator.w3.org complains about a couple
 of extensions I used, but it appears to work OK in both Firefox and
 Midori.  Any comments from users of other browsers?  The page will be
 permanently under construction, i.e. evolving as we find out more
 about how mdev works.
 

For those that don't follow Planet Gentoo: Luca Barbato just gave your project
a positive mention within a small rant about the whole situation:

  
http://blogs.gentoo.org/lu_zero/2012/03/17/again-on-shoveling-stuff-in-other-people-mouth/

Now to return to the sidelines and keep watching from afar how this whole thing
will turn out :) .

-- 
Marc Joliet
--
People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we
don't - Bjarne Stroustrup


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Re: [gentoo-user] mdev for udev substitution instructions web page is up

2012-03-18 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 18:42, Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote:
 Am Fri, 16 Mar 2012 22:51:00 -0400
 schrieb Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org:

   The instructions for replacing udev with mdev are now up at
 http://www.waltdnes.org/mdev/  validator.w3.org complains about a couple
 of extensions I used, but it appears to work OK in both Firefox and
 Midori.  Any comments from users of other browsers?  The page will be
 permanently under construction, i.e. evolving as we find out more
 about how mdev works.


 For those that don't follow Planet Gentoo: Luca Barbato just gave your project
 a positive mention within a small rant about the whole situation:

  http://blogs.gentoo.org/lu_zero/2012/03/17/again-on-shoveling-stuff-in-other-people-mouth/

 Now to return to the sidelines and keep watching from afar how this whole 
 thing
 will turn out :) .


Let's start a pool on how soon Walter will get a waltdnes@gentoo address ;-)

Rgds,
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Re: [gentoo-user] mdev for udev substitution instructions web page is up

2012-03-18 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 03/18/2012 09:42 AM, Michael Mol wrote:
 BTW, where would one go to get involved in organization of the wiki? I
 found myself wishing for templates for consistent formatting of things
 like files, one-liners and naming of ebuilds, but I don't think I
 ought to simply create the templates I'm looking for without talking
 with someone first.

For file content and kernel config I have seen templates up there
already.  I'm not sure what you mean by one-liners and naming of ebuilds.

Please get in touch with these people:

  http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/wiki/

You can reach all of them on alias wiki at g.o.

Best,



Sebastian



Re: [gentoo-user] mdev for udev substitution instructions web page is up

2012-03-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Sebastian Pipping sp...@gentoo.org wrote:
 On 03/18/2012 09:42 AM, Michael Mol wrote:
 BTW, where would one go to get involved in organization of the wiki? I
 found myself wishing for templates for consistent formatting of things
 like files, one-liners and naming of ebuilds, but I don't think I
 ought to simply create the templates I'm looking for without talking
 with someone first.

 For file content and kernel config I have seen templates up there
 already.  I'm not sure what you mean by one-liners and naming of ebuilds.

 Please get in touch with these people:

  http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/wiki/

 You can reach all of them on alias wiki at g.o.

I'm in #gentoo-wiki, now, and have been asked if I had permission to
copy Walt's page. So...Walt, did I have permission to copy your page?

-- 
:wq



Re: [gentoo-user] mdev for udev substitution instructions web page is up

2012-03-18 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 01:06:00PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote

 I'm in #gentoo-wiki, now, and have been asked if I had permission to
 copy Walt's page. So...Walt, did I have permission to copy your page?

  Yes you did.  My previous email should have beem enough.  If they want
explicit permission, copy this email to them.  As I mentioned in my
previous email, I'll be re-directing the web page to point to the wiki.
Thanks very much for your work.

-- 
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org



Re: [gentoo-user] mdev for udev substitution instructions web page is up

2012-03-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:
 On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 01:06:00PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote

 I'm in #gentoo-wiki, now, and have been asked if I had permission to
 copy Walt's page. So...Walt, did I have permission to copy your page?

  Yes you did.  My previous email should have beem enough.  If they want
 explicit permission, copy this email to them.  As I mentioned in my
 previous email, I'll be re-directing the web page to point to the wiki.
 Thanks very much for your work.

Hey, I haven't been able to help test, but wiki editing is part of my
hobby. It's the least I could do. I'll just hand them a link to your
email when it pops up on archives.gentoo.org. Hey, there it is!

http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/msg_acc1deaf79fd8f1536add7c5c2daf24a.xml

-- 
:wq



RE: [gentoo-user] mdev for udev substitution instructions web page is up

2012-03-17 Thread Mike Edenfield
 Walter Dnes wrote:
 The instructions for replacing udev with mdev are now up at
 http://www.waltdnes.org/mdev/  validator.w3.org complains about a couple
 of extensions I used, but it appears to work OK in both Firefox and
 Midori.  Any comments from users of other browsers?  The page will be

Looks fine in IE/Firefox/Chromium; you shouldn't have any problems with any
browsers since the validation errors are on deprecated attributes that are
still in wide use.

If you really want to fix them so it validates, change:

a name=foo -- a id=foo
ol type=a -- ol style=list-style-type: lower-alpha




Re: [gentoo-user] mdev for udev substitution instructions web page is up

2012-03-17 Thread Mick
On Saturday 17 Mar 2012 13:13:25 Mike Edenfield wrote:
  Walter Dnes wrote:
  The instructions for replacing udev with mdev are now up at
  http://www.waltdnes.org/mdev/  validator.w3.org complains about a couple
  of extensions I used, but it appears to work OK in both Firefox and
  Midori.  Any comments from users of other browsers?  The page will be
 
 Looks fine in IE/Firefox/Chromium; you shouldn't have any problems with any
 browsers since the validation errors are on deprecated attributes that are
 still in wide use.
 
 If you really want to fix them so it validates, change:
 
 a name=foo -- a id=foo
 ol type=a -- ol style=list-style-type: lower-alpha

It looks fine in Opera too.

I suggest you add a header on the page same as the page title for your human 
visitors.

Also I strongly suggest you take your email address off the page before 
spambots harvest it.  Instead, replace the link with a mail form page or 
popup.  Google for a suitable php mail form although there may be JavaScript 
forms too that are easy to complete and customise as desired.  Contact me off-
line if you can't find what you want.

Thanks for your efforts and please carry on the good work!
-- 
Regards,
Mick


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Re: [gentoo-user] mdev for udev substitution instructions web page is up

2012-03-17 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 03/17/2012 03:51 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
 The page will be permanently under construction, i.e. evolving as
 we find out more about how mdev works.

Unless you want to maintain total control of the data flow I would
suggest turning that page into a new wiki page at
https://wiki.gentoo.org/ to ease contribution to others and to
increase availability and accessibility of that content.

Best,



Sebastian



Re: [gentoo-user] mdev for udev substitution instructions web page is up

2012-03-16 Thread Dale
Walter Dnes wrote:
   The instructions for replacing udev with mdev are now up at
 http://www.waltdnes.org/mdev/  validator.w3.org complains about a couple
 of extensions I used, but it appears to work OK in both Firefox and
 Midori.  Any comments from users of other browsers?  The page will be
 permanently under construction, i.e. evolving as we find out more
 about how mdev works.
 


Looks fine on Seamonkey2.  Glad you got a web page.  Another step taken.
 ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-)

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how you interpreted my words!

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EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--quiet-build=n



Re: [gentoo-user] mdev for udev substitution instructions web page is up

2012-03-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 17, 2012 9:54 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:

  The instructions for replacing udev with mdev are now up at
 http://www.waltdnes.org/mdev/  validator.w3.org complains about a couple
 of extensions I used, but it appears to work OK in both Firefox and
 Midori.  Any comments from users of other browsers?  The page will be
 permanently under construction, i.e. evolving as we find out more
 about how mdev works.


Walter,

I've been reading on mdev, and I think there are some things we ought to
try :

1. *IMPORTANT* make sure there's /etc/mdev.conf !

2. Adding 'mdev -s' into /sbin/linuxrc after mounting sys/proc.

man busybox says that 'mdev -s' populates /dev with devices it detects
during boot. Maybe we won't need kernel devtmpfs anymore?

3. To handle hotplug events, ' echo /bin/mdev  /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug '.
But I'm not sure which kernel config to enable to make that sysctl knob
appear.