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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1210051316180.13407@asgard.lang.hm>
Date:	Fri, 5 Oct 2012 13:17:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:	david@...g.hm
To:	Emmanuel Benisty <benisty.e@...il.com>
cc:	Kurt H Maier <khm@....org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udev breakages - was: Re: Need of an ".async_probe()" type of
 callback at driver's core - Was: Re: [PATCH] [media] drxk: change it to use
 request_firmware_nowait()

> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Kurt H Maier <khm@....org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 07:27:01PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
>>>
>>> Al, that -><- close to volunteering for maintaining that FPOS kernel-side...
>>>
>>
>> This would be fantastic.
>
> And that would solve this very much worrying issue [1], quoting:
> "(Yes, udev on non-systemd systems is in our eyes a dead end, in case you
> haven't noticed it yet. I am looking forward to the day when we can drop
> that support entirely.)"
>
> [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-August/006066.html

I think it's worth noting that even though udev 189 was recently released, 
the not-yet-released Ubuntu 10.10 is going to be including udev 175.

David Lang
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