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From: md@Linux•IT (Marco d'Itri)
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah•com>
Cc: Narendra_K@Dell•com, linux-hotplug@vger•kernel.org,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, Matt_Domsch@Dell•com,
	Jordan_Hargrave@Dell•com, Charles_Rose@Dell•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] UDEV - Add 'udevlom' command line param to start_udev
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 19:32:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101103183247.GA28139@bongo.bofh.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101103180500.GA7441@kroah.com>

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On Nov 03, Greg KH <greg@kroah•com> wrote:

> Why not do this in some other configuration file?  Don't rely on udev
> being started with a different option, that is only ripe for abuse by
> everyone else who wants their pet-project to get into the udev
> environment.
Agreed. What about instructing users/installers to add something like
this in /etc/udev/rules.d/00-something.rules?

KERNEL=="eth*", ENV{UDEVLOM}="1"

(Maybe with a more descriptive name than "UDEVLOM".)

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-03 18:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-03 16:55 [PATCH 1/1] UDEV - Add 'udevlom' command line param to start_udev Narendra_K
2010-11-03 18:05 ` Greg KH
2010-11-03 18:32   ` Marco d'Itri [this message]
2010-11-04  8:37     ` Sujit K M
2010-11-05  2:58   ` Matt Domsch
2010-11-08  8:42     ` Sujit K M
2010-11-08 18:17       ` Matt Domsch
2010-11-15 16:47     ` Matt Domsch
2010-11-15 17:16       ` Ben Hutchings
2010-11-15 19:32         ` Rick Jones
2010-11-24 20:57           ` Loke, Chetan
2010-11-24 21:13           ` Loke, Chetan
2010-11-25  2:56             ` Bill Fink
2010-11-26  2:09               ` Matt Domsch
2010-11-10 16:32 ` Harald Hoyer
2010-11-10 16:37   ` Harald Hoyer

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