Am 03.06.2010 15:38, schrieb Tom Gundersen:

Hi Thomas,

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:

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You should upgrade and test these together (don't forget to regenerate initramfs when you're upgraded). The new udev should work without the new initscripts and mkinitcpio, but udev-based network device renaming will fail in that case.

udev is an upstream update with mostly bugfixes, but some changes in behaviour. Most importantly, NAME= rules are being ignored now, you can not change the kernel's predefined device name anymore.

Thanks for making this update, it is much appreciated. I will test it and let you know of any problems. First I wanted to remark:

According to udev NEWS:

22 udev 155 23 ======== 24 Bugfixes. 25 26 Now the udev daemon itself, does on startup: 27 - copy the content of /lib/udev/devices to /dev

So the following line in rc.sysinit should no longer be necessary:

# Copy static device nodes to /dev /bin/cp -a /lib/udev/devices/* /dev/

I've been thinking about this. First of all, I don't want initscripts to strongly depend on an up-to-date udev (although that would be a minor problem). Even if we ignore that, we need some devices in /dev/ before launching udevd, at least /dev/null. If we would force devtmps instead of tmpfs, that problem would be gone too. For now, I decided to leave the cp command in there, we can always remove it later.