On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 12:21:08PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > After having been deprecated for a long time, support for map files in > the /etc/hotplug/usb/ directory will be removed from the udev-hotplug > subsystem. This is scheduled to happen next month, when most of the > current hotplug package will be replaced by a new coldplug program > which will be part of udev. > > While udev provides and currently enables by default an helper program > to maintain compatibility with /etc/hotplug.d/, no such program exists > for map files and I do not think it would be useful to write one > (conversion to hotplug.d scripts would be easier). > > This means that the following packages will have to convert their map > files to udev rules files. Please remember that rules files MUST NOT be > installed in /etc/udev/rules.d/ but in /etc/udev/, and packages should > create symlinks to rules.d/ only when installed for the first time and > never again. > > If you want to keep support for 2.4-based systems which can only use the > old hotplug package then you will need to convert your script to an > hotplug.d script, but please remember that future versions of udev will > disable by default processing of hotplug.d and dev.d. > > Let me know if you have any questions or need help to fix your package. > Many of the scripts can be replaced with an udev rule to set the > appropriate permissions or directly start/stop the relevant daemon, I > added some comments below for a few packages which I checked. > > The affected packages are: > > libgpib-bin > bluez-bcm203x > eagle-usb-utils > eciadsl > gpsd > hpoj > pmp-common > kino (just run killall or start-stop-daemon from the rule) > libgphoto2-2 (should use a proper rule to change the permissions) > nut-usb > kcontrol (should use a proper rule to change the permissions) > libnjb-hotplug > openct > sl-modem-daemon >
And using the very funky dd-list, gives us a potentially more useful list: Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sl-modem Paul Brossier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kino Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org> kdebase Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> openct Edd Dumbill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> bluez-utils Shaun Jackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> libnjb Robert Jordens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpib Tilman Koschnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpsd Cyril Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> eagle-usb Frederic Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> libgphoto2 Mark Purcell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> hpoj Arnaud Quette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> nut Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pmp-common Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> eciadsl regards Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]