Archive for August 14, 2008

Whatever you do, don’t fix the kernel!

As you may have read in LWN (subscription required, and strongly recommended anyway), there’s been some argument on the linux-hotplug mailing list, the historically named home of udev development, about device naming.
The key threads are “default udev rules” and “Patches for device names“.
It all started when Kay reminded everybody that distributions should attempt to drop [...]