On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 11:05:00AM -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> The udev/nss_ldap thing has been brewing for a while, and we're still trying 
> to
> get upstream udev to fix the issue.
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99564#c44
> 
> In that comment I list the proper solution that upstream needs to undertake
> (make udev not lookup nss entries unless it is actually creating device nodes
> that need the entries), and some other workarounds.

"upstream" agrees that this is the proper solution, yet no one has sent
a patch to fix this yet.  Combine this with a lack of free time to work
on things like this by upstream, and we have a stalled bug :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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