[Libosinfo] [PATCH] Ditch udev rule

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeeshanak at gnome.org
Mon Feb 18 16:33:08 UTC 2013


On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 05:22:23PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> From: "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak at gnome.org>
>>
>> New udev/blkid expose more ISO9660 properties that apps can grab and
>> set on install media for detection to work. As a result our udev rule
>> becomes redundant.
>>
>> This improves system bootup time conciderably if there is an ISO9660
>> media inserted during bootup as our udev rule needed to parse the XML
>> etc and is therefore pretty slow (keeping in mind that a few seconds are
>> a long time in the land of modern udev/systemd).
>
> ACK, I never liked this rule existing in libosinfo in the first
> place.

Cool. Since merging this before systemd release would mean breaking
unattended installations in Boxes (and a few other things), lets merge
this after systemd release (expected in a week).

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124




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