On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 11:17:07PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On May 07, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sure i did read it, it is still a shame that firewire webcam support will > > not > > work out of the box with udev because of that. Adding a disclaimer saying > > you > > don't care and don't want to be bothered by this is no solution. And if you > The point is not that I do not care, but that I do not want to support > half-assed workarounds for bugs in other packages.
oh well, what are all thos other entries in links.conf for then ? > > had kept a wishlist bug open or something about this instead of just closing > > it ... > There is is at least one bug open against either the kernel or lib1394. I don't think it is against the kernel. But seriouly, why not have the workaround in place, it is just a couple of lines, compared to the bigger and more destabilizing changes that this would represent for the kernel. Don know about lib1394. > > At least add a comment about this in the README.Debian so people can easily > > setit up themselves, instead of having to investigate over much and maybe > > not > > find the right way to do this themselves. > README.Debian explains that this may happen when using broken drivers. But gives no hint as to how to actually fix this. Putting the lines there for peopel to copy/paste would be nice. > > Also, the sarge kernel will not be fixed anymore, since it has been frozen > > since a couple of month or so, not sure about lib1394 though, how do you > > expect lib1394 to solve this ? By creating the devices itself ? By making > > the > > lib1394 package postinst create it ? > By running MAKEDEV in the init script. init scripts ? You mean that lib1394 should add its own /etc/init.d script ? why not just have it cat the lines to the udev files ? > > Also, i am just curious, are you also one of the DDs who happen to work on > > ubuntu too ? Because it is just this kind of behavior which will make people > > migrate to it from debian. > No, but I encourage Debian users to switch to it. By making sure that debian is less functional than ubuntu ? Friendly, Sven Luther > > -- > ciao, > Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
