Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 003 release

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 02:50, Greg KH wrote:

> > Three questions if you do not mind:
> > 
> > 1)  Is it possible to maintain naming of tarball/version ?  Meaning,
> >     say we forget about the 003 version, could the next be 0.4, or even
> >     0.3.1 or whatever ?  Just changing makes trying to keep packages
> >     sane a hassle.  Thanks :)
> 
> The naming will be consistant from now on.  Next release will be 004,
> followed by 005, and so on.  Remember, version numbers mean nothing :)
> 

Well, if you had an 0.2 already, 003 sorda comes and screw the pooch 
(if trying to work with a package manager - although it seems we are
OK with ours seeing 003 as the later) :)

> >     If not, any idea if/when udev will start following official
> >     libsysfs?  Yes, not a biggie, but it would be nice to have
> >     sysfsutils its own package :)
> 
> I just got a patch today from Dan that merged the latest version of
> libsysfs into udev.  It's in the udev bk tree already.  libsysfs will
> always be a copy in the udev tree, as udev links statically, and it
> keeps the build process and debug process much easier.
> 
> sysfsutils can still be its own package, other programs are starting to
> use libsysfs already.
> 

Ok, ill have a look at the bk tree at som stage, thanks.

> > 3)  Any plans to have namedev support wildcarts ?  Like:
> > 
> >   dsp*:root:audio:0660
> >   audio*:root:audio:0660
> >   midi*:root:audio:0660
> >   mixer*:root:audio:0660
> 
> Yes, I would love to support that.  Care to send a patch?  :)
> 

:P  I wont promise, as my schedule is a bit tight, but I'll send
along if I get to cook something up.

> Of course you need a kernel patch for the sound class that is only
> available in my kernel tree right now for sound devices to work with
> udev...
> 

Need help testing ? :) (Yes, I am a lazy bastard, and a patch against
test8 would help if you needed the testing)


Thanks,

-- 

Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa

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