On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:32:00 -0800, Bryan Kadzban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeremy Huntwork wrote: >> 4. Ticket 2284, upgrade of Udev, and strip out udev-config. I doubt >> this needs its own branch. What sort of time/work is involved here? > > Not a ton of work; with a few hours of time, I can probably get this up > and running. (I'd just have to compile a newer kernel, install udev, > and start making changes to our config files.) At a guess, Saturday > (unless Matt wants to do it earlier ;-) ).
I was planning on committing all my package upgrades on Saturday (GMT), following a Friday night/Saturday morning build/boot cycle. > I am concerned, however, about stripping out udev-config entirely. > Maybe it's just because I don't like changing anything (visible) that > doesn't have to. > > I think it would be a better idea to do this in a couple of steps -- > yank out all the rules that are now duplicated first, then start going > through what is left, and figuring out (a) where it came from (and why > it's there) -- most of these are probably still "because MAKEDEV did it" > -- and then (b) whether we actually need it. Comparison to e.g. Ubuntu > or Fedora rules will probably be instructive. :-) Yeah, I was caught in two minds about this. As it is, my current patch yanks the whole lot out as it was by far the easiest option :-) Tell you what, Bryan. On Saturday, I'll commit the Udev upgrade by itself. Then you/we can work on getting rid of the duplicate rules. Then, at our leisure we can figure out what other rules we can nuke. Regards, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
