Thread (12 messages) 12 messages, 4 authors, 2013-02-11

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Modernize udev rules

From: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <hidden>
Date: 2013-02-11 10:44:45

On 11 February 2013 10:11, Thomas Bächler [off-list ref] wrote:
Am 11.02.2013 09:33, schrieb Michael Tokarev:
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11.02.2013 04:20, NeilBrown wrote:
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On Sat,  9 Feb 2013 18:48:38 +0100 Thomas Bächler
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-IMPORT{program}="/sbin/blkid -o udev -p $tempnode"
+IMPORT{builtin}="blkid"
Does this has additional udev version constrain?
I mean, which is the minimum udev version to support this properly,
do we care?
Udev relies on devtmpfs and thus does not create devices since version
176, therefore $tempnode is deprecated and only $devnode should be used
($tempnode seems to be around for compatibility, no idea if/when it will
be dropped).

The blkid builtin is also available since udev 176. In latest
So 175 or 176? Neither debian nor ubuntu have 176 yet, only 175.
And upgrading udev in debian/ubuntu is proving to be a hard task.

Regards,

Dmitrijs.

util-linux, the 'blkid -o udev' output is marked as deprecated, although
Karel says it's not entirely going away for now.

Why do we care? We want correct udev rules ($tempnode vs. $devnode), and
the using builtin is faster and less error-prone than calling an
external tool (plus, it is used everywhere else in udev).

As for compatibility: I see no reason why anyone would use a version of
udev that is more than one year old (175) together with a mdadm version
that is to be released in the future (3.2.7). If someone really wants
that, they should be competent enough to adjust the udev rules for their
local build.
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