Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264188AbTKSXLZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Nov 2003 18:11:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264190AbTKSXLZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Nov 2003 18:11:25 -0500 Received: from wblv-224-88.telkomadsl.co.za ([165.165.224.88]:42757 "EHLO gateway.lan") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264188AbTKSXLX (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Nov 2003 18:11:23 -0500 Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] document that udev isn't yet ready (fwd) From: Martin Schlemmer Reply-To: azarah@nosferatu.za.org To: Greg KH Cc: Adrian Bunk , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing Lists In-Reply-To: <20031119221456.GB22090@kroah.com> References: <20031119213237.GA16828@fs.tum.de> <20031119221456.GB22090@kroah.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-JItz/aKn+e6LHH/JjhbI" Message-Id: <1069283566.5032.21.camel@nosferatu.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 01:12:46 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1564 Lines: 49 --=-JItz/aKn+e6LHH/JjhbI Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 00:14, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:32:38PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > The trivial documentation patch forwarded below still applies (with a=20 > > few lines offset) against 2.6.0-test9-mm4. >=20 > Hm, with the 006 release, what do you find lacking in udev? >=20 I am guessing its more driver support, etc. Input devices for instance do not seem to have any sysfs support yet, and full initramfs support with udev in there, and udev.permissions setup to get general permissions, etc right, might make it more advertisable for the masses (no need to maintain /dev or the initial costs for users not so interested in the workings of things). Lets just say from what I have seen from users talking/asking, the initial setup and seeming 'lack of functionality' is the biggest blocker. Cheers, --=20 Martin Schlemmer --=-JItz/aKn+e6LHH/JjhbI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/u/juqburzKaJYLYRAhrwAKCdlP5JNM+ii/1I7TG5Er/o5Z8DcACfU9xY DSb2kVqcVpSZQ0apiINemIM= =Y8TO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-JItz/aKn+e6LHH/JjhbI-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/