On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 18:37:07 +0000 (UTC) "Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)" <nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt> wrote:
> On 2013-03-31, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) wrote: > >> On 2013-03-31, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> Pandu Poluan wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Since it's obvious that upsteam has this "my way or the highway" > >>>> mentality, I'm curious about whether eudev (and mdev) exhibits > >>>> the same behavior... > >>>> > >>> I synced yesterday and I didn't see the news alert. Last eudev > >>> update was in Feb. so I *guess* not. It seems to be a "udev" > >>> thing. That is why I mentioned eudev to someone else that was > >>> having this issue with a server setup. > >> I'd guess eudev will eventually do the same, although I hope that, > >> it being a separate codebase, makes it easier to adopt some > >> solution like the old rule generator, instead of using udev's > >> approach. > >> > >> The udev upstream may have its issues, but there's actually a > >> point in removing this, the approach there was so far was just a > >> dirty hack. > >> > > > > > > Thing is, it works for me. The old udev worked, eudev works but > > I'm not sure what hoops I would have to go through to get the new > > udev working, most likely the same ones others here are going > > through now. For once, I'm not having to deal with some broken > > issue. < knock on wood > > > > > My current uptime is about 190 days. May hit it still but I'm > > certainly hoping I don't. > > And, at least now, I have got enough knowledge to know whether it > affects me or not. But the sad thing is that I got most of that > knowledge *after* the first of these versions without the old script > was stabilized. Another sad thing is that if you want to find out about the option to keep the old-style naming rules, Udev/upgrade page <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Udev/upgrade> just links to bug 453494, so instead of a guide, users get to read a bug entry with 94 comments (and counting). I went with the new persistent names because it seemed simpler and because there was relatively clearer information about how it should be done. Once upon a time, for an upgrade like this, Gentoo would have produced a guide summarizing the pros and cons of the two courses of actions along with a recipe for each one. (Or if not a recipe, at least a list of all the considerations needed for each path.)
