Udev issues in today's coming rawhide

John Thacker thacker at math.cornell.edu
Thu Mar 2 15:23:09 UTC 2006


On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 04:11:26PM +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:01:15AM -0500, John Thacker wrote:
> > udev upstream deprecated the %e functionality and removed it from the
> > manpage (claiming that it had never really worked properly).  I had
> > thought it was supposed to still work, but it doesn't.
> 
> I had noticed already that the udev maintainers clearly didn't care
> about backwards compatibility, but I didn't think it was the case of
> fedora.

Well, in fairness it was broken upstream and the Fedora maintainer
(Harald) didn't notice that it was broken until now (when I filed
bug 183288 after emailing the list and getting no "me too" responses),
and it's a little difficult to get backwards compatibility working
without the option.  I'd like backwards compatibility too, but I'll
admit that on my own system my initial hack to get it working was
exactly the same one (without the hyphen) as Harald's.  Others know
more about udev than I, though.

> Reasonable indeed.  Of course the udev people would say you should use
> hal to get the list of devices.

Right.  Which is why the problem was at least masked on hal-using programs,
and thus why Harald and others didn't notice the problem before now.

John
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