Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757306Ab2JEURV (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Oct 2012 16:17:21 -0400 Received: from mail.lang.hm ([64.81.33.126]:52474 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757170Ab2JEURT (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Oct 2012 16:17:19 -0400 Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 13:17:17 -0700 (PDT) From: david@lang.hm X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard.lang.hm To: Emmanuel Benisty cc: Kurt H Maier , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: udev breakages - was: Re: Need of an ".async_probe()" type of callback at driver's core - Was: Re: [PATCH] [media] drxk: change it to use request_firmware_nowait() In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20121004145022.GA73321@intma.in> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 982 Lines: 24 > On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Kurt H Maier wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 07:27:01PM +0000, Al Viro wrote: >>> >>> Al, that -><- close to volunteering for maintaining that FPOS kernel-side... >>> >> >> This would be fantastic. > > And that would solve this very much worrying issue [1], quoting: > "(Yes, udev on non-systemd systems is in our eyes a dead end, in case you > haven't noticed it yet. I am looking forward to the day when we can drop > that support entirely.)" > > [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-August/006066.html I think it's worth noting that even though udev 189 was recently released, the not-yet-released Ubuntu 10.10 is going to be including udev 175. David Lang -- 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/