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Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev



On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:

> I believe the regression (removal of support for firmware loading
> during module loading) has been fixed.  However, the udev developers
> *knew in advance* that this would be a problem, reported such uses
> of firmware loading as being driver bugs.  They then went ahead and
> changed udev even though the drivers had not all been updated (and it
> was evidently not easy to do so in some cases).

If the systemd/udev people continue with that attitude, I'm expecting
Linus Torvalds to come with his super-simple, super-fast,
super-minimal and super-brilliant udev replacement any minute now.

--
Pau Garcia i Quiles
http://www.elpauer.org
(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)


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