[arch-general] UDEV

[Aaron Griffin]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 2:30 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Aaron Griffin schrieb:
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Amanai <amanai at freenet.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:27:32 -0700, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Amanai <amanai at freenet.de> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there no maintaince on udev anymore?
>>
>> This is my fault. I grabbed maintainership of udev when Tobias took a
>> vacation, and real life has hit me like a sack of bricks, so I have
>> little time these days to do much.
>>
>> This Wed afternoon I plan on running through all my outdated packages
>> and updating them. I will make udev a priority.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Aaron
>>
>
> Udev is a ton of work. Right now, we use a mix of udev upstream rules and
> our own rules, and we should probably switch to upstream rules as much as
> possible. But that means lots of testing and stuff and lots of reading rules
> and see if they are right for Arch. And of course, updating klibc-udev to
> the same state as udev. I wanted to do it once, then didn't have the time.

Yeah, I know. As far as I'm aware we use as many vanilla rules as
possible, with only one smallish file of Arch rules.