Re: Policy for devfs support

2005-04-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 23, Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Every package has certain expectations about device node names. Since devfs > is now considered as a bad idea the naming scheme should be as well. No, it should not. Almost every package supports it and there is no reason to remove the suppor

Re: Policy for devfs support

2005-04-22 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, Russell Coker wrote: > On Friday 22 April 2005 21:28, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > SE Linux also has a list of device names for initially labelling a file > > > system. Neither devfs nor devfs device names will work with SE Linux. > > > >

Re: Policy for devfs support

2005-04-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 22 April 2005 21:28, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > SE Linux also has a list of device names for initially labelling a file > > system. Neither devfs nor devfs device names will work with SE Linux. > > That's fine. But regular packages should not limit thems

Re: Policy for devfs support

2005-04-22 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Russell Coker wrote: > On Sunday 27 March 2005 00:26, Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Is there a project-wide policy for support for devfs (and devfs-style, > > e.g. udev devfs.rules) device naming? > > The SE Linux kernel code doesn't and won't support devfs. D

Re: Policy for devfs support

2005-04-21 Thread Russell Coker
On Sunday 27 March 2005 00:26, Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a project-wide policy for support for devfs (and devfs-style, > e.g. udev devfs.rules) device naming? The SE Linux kernel code doesn't and won't support devfs. Devfs is on the way out and there is no interest in ad

Re: Policy for devfs support

2005-03-30 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 07:24:05PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Mar 26, Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there a project-wide policy for support for devfs (and devfs-style, > > e.g. udev devfs.rules) device naming? > No, but nearly all packages support both conventions. Nearly a

Re: Policy for devfs support

2005-03-28 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 11:19:43AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > > > On Mar 26, Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I'm asking because of obstruction (from upstream) regarding the > >> applica

Re: Policy for devfs support

2005-03-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 28, Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The yaboot maintainer has been resisting for years all kinds of sensible > > changes (like #233810), so I'm not really surprised. > Is there anything that could be done about this? I don't think that > it's acceptable for the package maintaine

Re: Policy for devfs support

2005-03-28 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Mar 26, Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm asking because of obstruction (from upstream) regarding the >> application of a simple patch to allow yaboot to support it: >> >> http://bugs.debian

Re: Policy for devfs support

2005-03-26 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 26, Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a project-wide policy for support for devfs (and devfs-style, > e.g. udev devfs.rules) device naming? No, but nearly all packages support both conventions. > I'm asking because of obstruction (from upstream) regarding the > application

Re: Policy for devfs support

2005-03-26 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, Roger Leigh wrote: > Is there a project-wide policy for support for devfs (and devfs-style, > e.g. udev devfs.rules) device naming? Do it if you can. It is not mandated anywhere, but it is clearly a very good idea. We should even make it a *may* in policy to stress this, I su

Policy for devfs support

2005-03-26 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there a project-wide policy for support for devfs (and devfs-style, e.g. udev devfs.rules) device naming? I'm asking because of obstruction (from upstream) regarding the application of a simple patch to allow yaboot to support it: http://bugs.debi