Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-11-17 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 07:18:30AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote Can you find one example of any situation where the linux kernel has ever required any specific implementation of anything in userspace as a matter of policy

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-11-13 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 07:18:30AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 12:20 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: What worries me is that Lennart has been able to get modifications done to the kernel, e.g. kdbus. I know this'll sound paranoid, but how long before

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-11-11 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 12:20 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 05:48:49PM +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote I wouldn't worry about it at all, there is no way *sys-fs/udev ebuild* will ever need systemd. There might be a news item later, with instructions on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-11-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 9/26/2014 1:04 AM, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: On 25/09/14 22:03, James wrote: I'd be better of with a fresh install of lilblue + musl + eudev is what you are really saying here? that's the only usecase for eudev currently, yes, otherwise you have no reason to switch Hi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-11-10 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 6:04 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: eudev is looking more attractive every day... but can it continue to work and be supported if Lennart gets his way and upstream udev stops working without systemd? Well, there are no plans to make udev stop working

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-11-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/10/2014 7:30 AM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: Well, there are no plans to make udev stop working without systemd as far as I can tell. HOWEVER, there ARE plans to require using kdbus to communicate with udev, and for that to work there needs to be a userspace initialization of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-11-10 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 11/10/2014 7:30 AM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: Well, there are no plans to make udev stop working without systemd as far as I can tell. HOWEVER, there ARE plans to require using kdbus to communicate with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-11-10 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 10/11/14 13:04, Tanstaafl wrote: On 9/26/2014 1:04 AM, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: On 25/09/14 22:03, James wrote: I'd be better of with a fresh install of lilblue + musl + eudev is what you are really saying here? that's the only usecase for eudev currently, yes,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-11-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/10/2014 10:48 AM, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: I wouldn't worry about it at all, there is no way *sys-fs/udev ebuild* will ever need systemd. There might be a news item later, with instructions on moving to something else, but that's not something we are even planning at

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-11-10 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 05:48:49PM +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote I wouldn't worry about it at all, there is no way *sys-fs/udev ebuild* will ever need systemd. There might be a news item later, with instructions on moving to something else, but that's not something we are even planning at the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-11-10 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 11/11/14 07:20, Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 05:48:49PM +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote I wouldn't worry about it at all, there is no way *sys-fs/udev ebuild* will ever need systemd. There might be a news item later, with instructions on moving to something else, but that's not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-11-10 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 05:48:49PM +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote I wouldn't worry about it at all, there is no way *sys-fs/udev ebuild* will ever need systemd. There might be a news item later, with instructions on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-09-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 05:27:15 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I buy machines with one ethernet interface. What I find particularly annoying is this doublespeak about calling it predictable. Before the change, it was predicatbly eth0. Now, it's different on every different model. It's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-09-26 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 3:07 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 05:27:15 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I buy machines with one ethernet interface. What I find particularly annoying is this doublespeak about calling it predictable. Before the change, it was

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-09-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 03:22:16 -0500, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: That may be true for PCI devices but not for USB ones. If you unplug a USB device and plug it back into the same port, it will get a different device number. The naming is more predictable, but it's not there yet. That

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-09-26 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 26/09/14 11:22, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 3:07 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 05:27:15 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I buy machines with one ethernet interface. What I find particularly annoying is this doublespeak about calling

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-09-26 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 26/09/14 11:47, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 26/09/14 11:22, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 3:07 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 05:27:15 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I buy machines with one ethernet interface. What I find particularly

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-09-26 Thread David W Noon
On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 12:04:47 +0300, Samuli Suominen (ssuomi...@gentoo.org) wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ? (in 54252c2f.1030...@gentoo.org): [snip] Later kernels *can mark interfaces predictable in a new form of metadata*, and udev = 209 can pick that information

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-09-26 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 26/09/14 19:47, David W Noon wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 12:04:47 +0300, Samuli Suominen (ssuomi...@gentoo.org) wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ? (in 54252c2f.1030...@gentoo.org): [snip] Later kernels *can mark interfaces predictable in a new form of metadata

[gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-09-25 Thread James
Samuli Suominen ssuominen at gentoo.org writes: Any other caveats (short term) on switching udev to eudev? in fact, from what I last checked, eudev's networking is at same level with udev-208, from time before the .link support at all ah, back when ethernet defaulted to eth0 not enp5s0 ?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-09-25 Thread Dale
James wrote: Samuli Suominen ssuominen at gentoo.org writes: Any other caveats (short term) on switching udev to eudev? in fact, from what I last checked, eudev's networking is at same level with udev-208, from time before the .link support at all ah, back when ethernet defaulted to eth0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-09-25 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 07:03:02PM +, James wrote Samuli Suominen ssuominen at gentoo.org writes: Any other caveats (short term) on switching udev to eudev? in fact, from what I last checked, eudev's networking is at same level with udev-208, from time before the .link support at

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-09-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/09/2014 02:23, Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 07:03:02PM +, James wrote Samuli Suominen ssuominen at gentoo.org writes: Any other caveats (short term) on switching udev to eudev? in fact, from what I last checked, eudev's networking is at same level with udev-208,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-09-25 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 25/09/14 22:03, James wrote: Samuli Suominen ssuominen at gentoo.org writes: Any other caveats (short term) on switching udev to eudev? in fact, from what I last checked, eudev's networking is at same level with udev-208, from time before the .link support at all ah, back when ethernet