Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-23 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 08:20:28PM -0600, Donnie Berkholz wrote: The key misunderstanding here seems to be that initiation of a Gentoo project means that the council explicitly supports it, because in most distributions there is no choice available to end users at this level of detail.

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-23 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 11/19/2012 9:39 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Joshua Kinard ku...@gentoo.org wrote: Correct me if wrong, but didn't the issue start with udev wanting to put the PCI ID database/file into /usr/share from /etc? Well, I can't vouch for what the first issue that

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-22 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 23:57 Sat 17 Nov , Greg KH wrote: On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:02:19PM -0800, Alec Warner wrote: I'm unsure on what grounds you disapprove. People start (and abandon) projects often in Gentoo. Suddenly you dislike one such project and object to this practice? Certainly if we had to get

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-20 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 08:08:38PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 09:08:52AM -0800, Greg KH wrote Again, any specific pointer to a commit in the tree that caused this? See http://wiki.gentoo.org/index.php?title=Udev/upgraderedirect=no Comments? As I don't know who

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-20 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 08:08:38PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 09:08:52AM -0800, Greg KH wrote Again, any specific pointer to a commit in the tree that caused this? See

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-20 Thread Walter Dnes
I jumped off udev before I was pushed off... https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev/Automount_USB While the Gentoo council meeting was looking at patches to udev on an ongoing basis, I was planning for a worst-case scenario where a separate /usr without initramfs

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-20 Thread Markos Chandras
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 08:08:38PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 09:08:52AM -0800, Greg KH wrote Again, any specific pointer to a

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-19 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Joshua Kinard ku...@gentoo.org wrote: Correct me if wrong, but didn't the issue start with udev wanting to put the PCI ID database/file into /usr/share from /etc? Well, I can't vouch for what the first issue that arose was, but I do recall discussion that

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-19 Thread William Hubbs
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 09:39:59AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Joshua Kinard ku...@gentoo.org wrote: Correct me if wrong, but didn't the issue start with udev wanting to put the PCI ID database/file into /usr/share from /etc? Well, I can't vouch for what

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-19 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:59 AM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: I'm glad someone else on this list finally realizes that udev did not break separate /usr on its own. I've been trying to explain this to people here for ages. It isn't just programs that use libraries in /usr/lib that

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-19 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 19/11/12 16:59, William Hubbs wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 09:39:59AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Joshua Kinard ku...@gentoo.org wrote: Correct me if wrong, but didn't the issue start with udev wanting to put the PCI ID database/file into /usr/share from

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 07:06:04PM -0800, Greg KH wrote Again, udev isn't the problem here. It hasn't broken the standalone /usr issue at all. systemd-udev supporters have an interesting definition of broken. I plead not guilty to vandalism your honour. The complainant's window has

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 07:11:13PM -0800, Greg KH wrote And note, Kay and Lennart are _not_ treating udev as a second-class citizen. I said *STAND-ALONE* udev. Please re-read the two posts... http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-August/006066.html

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-19 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:30:58AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 07:06:04PM -0800, Greg KH wrote There isn't anything in udev to change for this. I don't understand why you are thinking that udev has anything to do with this issue at all. Before version 181, udev

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-19 Thread William Hubbs
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 09:08:52AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:30:58AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 07:06:04PM -0800, Greg KH wrote There isn't anything in udev to change for this. I don't understand why you are thinking that udev has anything to

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-19 Thread Petteri Räty
On 18.11.2012 6.28, Greg KH wrote: Also, you can not assign copyright to a third party, unless you have a copyright assignment form. Do the developers doing this work have such a form assigned? And in what country and state is that form valid for? Different countries, and states, have

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-19 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 05:35:22PM +0100, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) wrote: El 18/11/12 04:39, Greg KH escribió: Anyway, I now see a _very_ dangerous commit in the Copyright branch that better not get merged into the tree, as it's wrong, and illegal under all countries that

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-19 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: Anyway, the commit is gone, which is good, thank you for deleting the branch. Please be more careful about doing such things in the future. We really don't want to get the Foundation in trouble by doing this type of thing.

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-19 Thread Richard Yao
On 11/19/2012 02:40 PM, Greg KH wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 05:35:22PM +0100, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) wrote: El 18/11/12 04:39, Greg KH escribió: Anyway, I now see a _very_ dangerous commit in the Copyright branch that better not get merged into the tree, as it's wrong,

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-19 Thread Fabio Erculiani
In my humble opinion, the real question is: why systemd got merged into udev? I would love to hear a clear technical reason for that. -- Fabio Erculiani

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-19 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:22:14AM +0100, Fabio Erculiani wrote: In my humble opinion, the real question is: why systemd got merged into udev? I would love to hear a clear technical reason for that. I recall this was discussed on the systemd mailing list when it happened, so you might want to

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 09:08:52AM -0800, Greg KH wrote Again, any specific pointer to a commit in the tree that caused this? See http://wiki.gentoo.org/index.php?title=Udev/upgraderedirect=no Comments? Since this version udev depends on files in /usr. If you have /usr on a separate

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 18/11/12 07:19, Greg KH wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:00:52AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: Having a builtin is a good idea, but the implementation as a mandatory dependency on kmod is not. The plan is to reintroduce it as an optional dependency, so that distributions (and Gentoo users) that

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: I understand the bizarre need of some people to want to build the udev binary without the build-time dependencies that systemd requires, but surely that is a set of simple Makefile patches, right? And is something that small

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Pacho Ramos
El dom, 18-11-2012 a las 11:13 +0200, Samuli Suominen escribió: On 18/11/12 07:19, Greg KH wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:00:52AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: Having a builtin is a good idea, but the implementation as a mandatory dependency on kmod is not. The plan is to reintroduce it as

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 11/18/2012 04:48 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: El dom, 18-11-2012 a las 11:13 +0200, Samuli Suominen escribió: On 18/11/12 07:19, Greg KH wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:00:52AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: Having a builtin is a good idea, but the implementation as a mandatory dependency on kmod

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Wulf C. Krueger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18.11.2012 06:00, Richard Yao wrote: but we are doing AGILE development, so long term goals have not been well defined. [...] With that said, Linux distributions are victims of people continually trying to reinvent the wheel with no formal

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Rich Freeman
Wow, that's some kind of thread you started... :) I'll respond in general to a bunch of stuff on this list by topic. COUNCIL MEETING On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: So, that's a nice summary, but, what is the end result here? Speaking as somebody who was

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Kacper Kowalik
On 18.11.2012 08:57, Greg KH wrote: On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:02:19PM -0800, Alec Warner wrote: 1) systemd-udev will require systemd. Stated by the systemd maintainers themselves as a thing they want to do in the future. Some users don't want to use systemd. We could go into detail as to why;

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Rafael Goncalves Martins
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Kacper Kowalik xarthis...@gentoo.org wrote: On 18.11.2012 08:57, Greg KH wrote: On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:02:19PM -0800, Alec Warner wrote: 1) systemd-udev will require systemd. Stated by the systemd maintainers themselves as a thing they want to do in the

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)
El 18/11/12 04:39, Greg KH escribió: Anyway, I now see a _very_ dangerous commit in the Copyright branch that better not get merged into the tree, as it's wrong, and illegal under all countries that follow the normal body of Copyright Law. It should be removed right now before someone gets

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Rafael Goncalves Martins rafaelmart...@gentoo.org wrote: If these organizations aren't governed by Gentoo they should have some disclaimers, saying that the projects hosted there aren't sponsored by Gentoo, but this udev-ng/eudev/whatever thing does the

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Rafael Goncalves Martins
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Rafael Goncalves Martins rafaelmart...@gentoo.org wrote: If these organizations aren't governed by Gentoo they should have some disclaimers, saying that the projects hosted there aren't

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Jason A. Donenfeld
Hey guys, Just read through this entire thread, and one concern still rings loud and clear -- what is the purpose of this fork? The various responses I've read so far are something like: - Because Linus yelled a lot when udev/Kay broke firmware loading. Except both Linus and the udev people

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread William Hubbs
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 10:48:33AM +0100, Pacho Ramos wrote: El dom, 18-11-2012 a las 11:13 +0200, Samuli Suominen escribió: On 18/11/12 07:19, Greg KH wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:00:52AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: Having a builtin is a good idea, but the implementation as a

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Rafael Goncalves Martins rafaelmart...@gentoo.org wrote: Yeah, but I think that there's a big difference about any developer being allowed to create a project under the gentoo umbrella and create a project and claim it as Gentoo sponsored without any review of

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Rafael Goncalves Martins
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Rafael Goncalves Martins rafaelmart...@gentoo.org wrote: Yeah, but I think that there's a big difference about any developer being allowed to create a project under the gentoo umbrella and

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:22 PM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: So here is the question I'll pose. Is it worth all of that extra work for us to support separate /usr correctly, or should we just tell everyone to start using initramfs or, if they don't want to use initramfs and they

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Peter Stuge
Rich Freeman wrote: I think that there's a big difference about any developer being allowed to create a project under the gentoo umbrella and create a project and claim it as Gentoo sponsored without any review of the council. I agree that it can exists in the Github account, or even in

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Rafael Goncalves Martins
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Rafael Goncalves Martins rafaelmart...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Rafael Goncalves Martins rafaelmart...@gentoo.org wrote: Yeah, but I think that there's a big

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Rafael Goncalves Martins rafaelmart...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Rafael Goncalves Martins Hmm, pretty cool! Then I can create a stupid project, put it on gentoo infra and claim it as being Gentoo sponsored. Good to know, thanks! Just

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Richard Yao
On 11/18/2012 11:59 AM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: All I'm asking is some kind of coherent mission statement. How can we define a mission statement when we are still in the process of understanding the codebase, what it does well and what it can do better? A project announcement should answer

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Richard Yao
On 11/18/2012 12:37 PM, Rafael Goncalves Martins wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Rafael Goncalves Martins rafaelmart...@gentoo.org wrote: Yeah, but I think that there's a big difference about any developer being

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Matt Turner
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Richard Yao r...@gentoo.org wrote: On 11/18/2012 11:59 AM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: All I'm asking is some kind of coherent mission statement. How can we define a mission statement when we are still in the process of understanding the codebase, what it does

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 01:51:14AM -0600, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote ... systemd is a cross-distro project: every major and many, many minor distros have had people contributing to systemd. last i heard even two debian devs have commit access to the repo, among many others. systemd upstream

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:52:22PM -0800, Greg KH wrote Yes, I know all about the firmware issue with media drivers. It's now resolved and fixed, in two different ways (the kernel now loads firmware directly, and on older kernels, udev has fixed the issue.) So that's no longer an issue for

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 08:50:07PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:52:22PM -0800, Greg KH wrote Yes, I know all about the firmware issue with media drivers. It's now resolved and fixed, in two different ways (the kernel now loads firmware directly, and on older

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 08:13:55PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 01:51:14AM -0600, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote ... systemd is a cross-distro project: every major and many, many minor distros have had people contributing to systemd. last i heard even two debian devs

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 11/18/2012 10:06 PM, Greg KH wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 08:50:07PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: It's a bizarre development model, I know. :) Works better than Windows' model: http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2006/11/windows-shutdown-crapfest.html (Okay, old, and I know MS has since

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 18/11/2012 19:38, Joshua Kinard wrote: Correct me if wrong, but didn't the issue start with udev wanting to put the PCI ID database/file into /usr/share from /etc? Then kmod was changed to link against libs in /usr/lib, and then udev made dependent on kmod? I think that led to a scenario

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 07:42:11PM -0800, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: On 18/11/2012 19:38, Joshua Kinard wrote: Correct me if wrong, but didn't the issue start with udev wanting to put the PCI ID database/file into /usr/share from /etc? Then kmod was changed to link against libs in /usr/lib,

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 18/11/2012 20:28, Greg KH wrote: But note, we are moving that file out of pciutils (and the usb.ids file out of usbutils) and they will eventually be generated from the udev package itself, as it holds the master hardware database. But that's a totally different topic than the one at hand,

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-18 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 11/18/2012 11:28 PM, Greg KH wrote: Yes, it was always in /usr/somewhere. And the pci.ids file came from the pciutils package, not udev. But note, we are moving that file out of pciutils (and the usb.ids file out of usbutils) and they will eventually be generated from the udev

[gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 08:02:07PM +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote: Handling separate /usr support == WilliamH requested approval for two methods to support separate /usr systems[2]. The discussion is closely related to recent opinons on udev, such as e.g. [1],

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 07:29:22PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: I see an entertaining fork of udev on github at the moment (-ng, really? What happens when someone wants to fork that, -ng-ng? Be a bit more original in your naming please, good thing I never trademarked udev all those years ago, maybe

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Richard Yao
On 11/17/2012 10:29 PM, Greg KH wrote: I see an entertaining fork of udev on github at the moment (-ng, really? What happens when someone wants to fork that, -ng-ng? Be a bit more original in your naming please, good thing I never trademarked udev all those years ago, maybe I still

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Richard Yao
On 11/17/2012 10:39 PM, Greg KH wrote: Anyway, I now see a _very_ dangerous commit in the Copyright branch that better not get merged into the tree, as it's wrong, and illegal under all countries that follow the normal body of Copyright Law. It should be removed right now before someone gets

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:02:00PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: On 11/17/2012 10:29 PM, Greg KH wrote: I see an entertaining fork of udev on github at the moment (-ng, really? What happens when someone wants to fork that, -ng-ng? Be a bit more original in your naming please, good thing I

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:06:38PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: On 11/17/2012 10:39 PM, Greg KH wrote: Anyway, I now see a _very_ dangerous commit in the Copyright branch that better not get merged into the tree, as it's wrong, and illegal under all countries that follow the normal body of

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Richard Yao
On 11/17/2012 11:19 PM, Greg KH wrote: On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:02:00PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: On 11/17/2012 10:29 PM, Greg KH wrote: I see an entertaining fork of udev on github at the moment (-ng, really? What happens when someone wants to fork that, -ng-ng? Be a bit more original in

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:06:38PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: On 11/17/2012 10:39 PM, Greg KH wrote: Anyway, I now see a _very_ dangerous commit in the Copyright branch that better not get merged into the tree, as it's wrong, and illegal under all countries that follow the normal body of

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Richard Yao
On 11/17/2012 11:28 PM, Greg KH wrote: On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:06:38PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: On 11/17/2012 10:39 PM, Greg KH wrote: Anyway, I now see a _very_ dangerous commit in the Copyright branch that better not get merged into the tree, as it's wrong, and illegal under all

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:25:11PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: On 11/17/2012 11:19 PM, Greg KH wrote: On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:02:00PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: On 11/17/2012 10:29 PM, Greg KH wrote: I see an entertaining fork of udev on github at the moment (-ng, really? What happens

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Richard Yao
On 11/17/2012 11:28 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:06:38PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: On 11/17/2012 10:39 PM, Greg KH wrote: Anyway, I now see a _very_ dangerous commit in the Copyright branch that better not get merged into the tree, as it's wrong, and illegal under

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 04:28:00AM +, Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:06:38PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: On 11/17/2012 10:39 PM, Greg KH wrote: Anyway, I now see a _very_ dangerous commit in the Copyright branch that better not get merged into the tree, as it's

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:26:41PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: Thanks for clarifying that. It will be fixed before it goes into HEAD. I recommend deleting the branch and starting over, having that commit floating around like that could cause trouble. thanks, greg k-h

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Richard Yao
On 11/17/2012 11:35 PM, Greg KH wrote: On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:25:11PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: On 11/17/2012 11:19 PM, Greg KH wrote: On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:02:00PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: On 11/17/2012 10:29 PM, Greg KH wrote: I see an entertaining fork of udev on github at the

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 17/11/2012 21:00, Richard Yao wrote: I am afraid that I have to disappoint you. If we were using the waterfall model, I could outline some very nice long term goals for you, but we are doing AGILE development, so long term goals have not been well defined. Can I step in and just as you to

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:06:38PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: On 11/17/2012 10:39 PM, Greg KH wrote: Anyway, I now see a _very_ dangerous commit in the Copyright branch that better not get merged into the tree, as it's wrong, and illegal under all countries that follow the normal body of

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Richard Yao
On 11/18/2012 12:05 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: On 17/11/2012 21:00, Richard Yao wrote: I am afraid that I have to disappoint you. If we were using the waterfall model, I could outline some very nice long term goals for you, but we are doing AGILE development, so long term goals have not

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:00:52AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: I'm genuinely interested in your goals, in detail, otherwise I would not have asked about them. Perhaps I am totally wrong and your fork makes sense, perhaps, to me, not. But without knowing such goals, there's no way that

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 17/11/2012 21:13, Richard Yao wrote: I would appreciate it if people would avoid harassing others that decide to develop things different than what they want to use. Read GLEP 0039: And I would appreciate if you'd avoid making us look like a bunch of wannabes, by using buzzwords like

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Richard Yao
On 11/18/2012 12:20 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: But you've made Gentoo the laughing stock of the Linux world over the past couple of days, and now you come up with this? Please get a clue, please. Arguably, the fact that others forced our hand before we were ready lead to the widespread

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 17/11/2012 21:26, Richard Yao wrote: Arguably, the fact that others forced our hand before we were ready lead to the widespread attention. With that said, responses to Gentoo have always been mixed, but I have seen far more positive responses than negative responses and I am quite happy

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:13:37AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: We do not need to justify the need for our project before it is announced or even after it is announced. It is free to conflict with RedHat's systemd project. If we find next year that we can reconcile with Kay Sievers and Lennart

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Richard Yao
On 11/18/2012 12:19 AM, Greg KH wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:00:52AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: I'm genuinely interested in your goals, in detail, otherwise I would not have asked about them. Perhaps I am totally wrong and your fork makes sense, perhaps, to me, not. But without knowing

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Richard Yao
On 11/18/2012 12:35 AM, Greg KH wrote: So, I'll say this again, why is this project getting the copyright of the Gentoo Foundation? Is it an official project of Gentoo in some manner? One developer who asked to join our project as we are in the process of getting started thought he would be

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 11/18/2012 12:20 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: I appreciate your enthusiasm, but you're going quite a tad overboard, and looks like your concept of development is I'm not sure of what I'm doing, but I'm doing it anyway. It's human nature to wake up one day and exclaim, I will develop X!,

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 17/11/2012 21:52, Joshua Kinard wrote: It's human nature to wake up one day and exclaim, I will develop X!, and then go off and do so without any formal planning or even a rough idea of how to start. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes, you just roll dice. That's what

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:35:22AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: On 11/18/2012 12:19 AM, Greg KH wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:00:52AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: I'm genuinely interested in your goals, in detail, otherwise I would not have asked about them. Perhaps I am totally wrong and

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Doug Goldstein
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:35:22AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: On 11/18/2012 12:19 AM, Greg KH wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:00:52AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: I'm genuinely interested in your goals, in detail, otherwise I

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Alec Warner
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:35:22AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: On 11/18/2012 12:19 AM, Greg KH wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:00:52AM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: I'm genuinely interested in your goals, in detail, otherwise I

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Doug Goldstein
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote: On 17/11/2012 21:52, Joshua Kinard wrote: It's human nature to wake up one day and exclaim, I will develop X!, and then go off and do so without any formal planning or even a rough idea of how to start.

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 07:29:22PM -0800, Greg KH wrote But, along those lines, what is the goal of the fork? What are you trying to attempt to do with a fork of udev that could not be accomplished by: - getting patches approved upstream or: - keeping a simple set of patches outside of

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 17/11/2012 23:05, Doug Goldstein wrote: Diego I'm going to have to call you out here. You've so far in this thread claimed you were the reason behind the eudev project and now claim you're behind OpenRC. Sounds like bragging to me. Please don't put words in my mouth. I'm not behind any of

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Matt Turner
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: As I posted elsewhere, working on a project based on hate only lasts so long. I should know, that's the reason I started udev in the first place over 9 years ago. The Xfree86 people generated a lot of hate, just

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 1:25 AM, Matt Turner matts...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: As I posted elsewhere, working on a project based on hate only lasts so long. I should know, that's the reason I started udev in the first place

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 02:05:39AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 07:29:22PM -0800, Greg KH wrote But, along those lines, what is the goal of the fork? What are you trying to attempt to do with a fork of udev that could not be accomplished by: - getting patches

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Alec Warner
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 02:05:39AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 07:29:22PM -0800, Greg KH wrote But, along those lines, what is the goal of the fork? What are you trying to attempt to do with a fork of

Re: [gentoo-dev] udev-ng? (Was: Summary Council meeting Tuesday 13 November 2012)

2012-11-17 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:02:19PM -0800, Alec Warner wrote: 1) systemd-udev will require systemd. Stated by the systemd maintainers themselves as a thing they want to do in the future. Some users don't want to use systemd. We could go into detail as to why; but I think that is not as