I think we also ought to contact Linus, to have some input on what the forked-udev (vdev? gdev? nlpdev?) *shouldn't* be. Lest we tread the same path that led to him calling udev 'stupid'.
Just my 2 cents. Probably worthless :-| Rgds, -- On Nov 13, 2012 4:26 PM, "Dale" <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Michael Hampicke wrote: > > Am 13.11.2012 04:20, schrieb Dale: > >> > >> -------- Original Message -------- > >> Subject: [gentoo-project] With regard to udev stabilization > >> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:40:53 -0500 > >> From: Richard Yao <r...@gentoo.org> > >> Reply-To: gentoo-proj...@lists.gentoo.org > >> To: gentoo-proj...@lists.gentoo.org > >> > >> > >> Richard Yao wrote: > >> > >>> Dear Everyone, > >>> > >>> It is no secret that many of us are unhappy with the direction that > udev > >>> has taken under the leadership of the systemd developers. That includes > >>> Linus Torvalds, who is 'leery of the fact that the udev maintenance > >>> seems to have gone into some "crazy mode" where they have made changes > >>> that were known to be problematic, and are pure and utter stupidity.' > >>> > >>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/2/505 > >>> > >>> After speaking with several other Gentoo developers that share Linus' > >>> concerns, I have decided to form a team to fork udev. Our plan is to > >>> eliminate the separate /usr requirement from our fork, among other > >>> things. We will announce the project later this week. > >>> > >>> I understand that the council is scheduled to vote on a topic related > to > >>> udev stabilization. Would it be possible to delay the vote for another > >>> month so that we have time to get organized? > >>> > >>> Yours truly, > >>> Richard Yao > >>> > >> Well, it appears we have someone willing to fork udev. Yeppie !! Me, > I'm looking forward to seeing how this works and giving it a test run when > it gets ready. Since it is a fork, shouldn't be to long, I hope. > >> > >> I wonder what they will name it tho. > >> > >> Dale > >> > >> :-) :-) > >> > > What about gdev (gentoo dev) :) > > > > > > That could work but since Linus thinks it is stupid the way udev is > headed, I was thinking about smartdev. That would be the opposite of > stupiddev I guess. lol > > I don't care what the name is, I just hope it works out not only for > Gentoo but for other distros that don't like the direction udev is going. > > Thanks to Richard and everyone else who is going to be working on this. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > -- > I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or > how you interpreted my words! > > >
