On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:20:01 +0700 Ivan Shmakov <ivan@gray.siamics.net> wrote: > >>>>> Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> writes: > >>>>> On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:19:08 +0700 Ivan Shmakov wrote: > > > udev isn't just for pluggable devices, packages can provide udev > > rules to ensure that devices appear with a consistent name, > > It doesn't seem like a good reason for the aforementioned > dependency, does it? Yes it is - otherwise devices simply stop communicating with the package every couple of boot cycles. The package could also start reading the wrong /dev node and get thoroughly confused. If the device concerned is the main input HID for the machine, that is really very, very bad and a working udev rule file and a dependency on udev is mandatory. (My most recent udev rule encounter was precisely this situation with an embedded device trying to read the hardware button interface, one boot it was /dev/input/event0, next time it was /dev/input/event1, the package failed to start and the device could not be operated or shutdown or rebooted without connecting the serial port.) -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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