[arch-dev-public] [signoff] udev 118-4

[Tobias Powalowski]

Am Sonntag, 9. März 2008 schrieb Aaron Griffin:
> On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 1:33 AM, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa at gmx.de> wrote:
> > Am Samstag, 8. März 2008 schrieb Aaron Griffin:
> > > On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Daniel Isenmann
> > > <daniel.isenmann at gmx.de>
> >
> >  wrote:
> >  > > On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 15:37:24 -0600 "Aaron Griffin"
> >
> >  <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  > >  > c) The *only* thing that is appropriate is to autoblacklist them
> >  > >  > via modprobe rules.. Doing it the previous way is absolute crap.
> >  > >
> >  > >  I have done this and it works. I manually add the nvidiafb to
> >  > >  modprobe.conf, but that's not a solution, just a workaround for me.
> >  > > It should be placed in a modprobe.d/ file instead, if we will do it.
> >  >
> >  > Right, the reason I bring this up is that apparently some people are
> >  > against using a modprobe.d file for this.
> >  >
> >  > Funny question though, if we make a
> >  > /etc/modprobe.d/framebuffer_blacklist file, or something, what package
> >  > does it belong to? I almost think it should be part of the kernel, but
> >  > that seems weird.
> >
> >  It should belong to udev because udev loads it, kernel doesn't make
> > sense.
>
> Er? No. Modprobe loads it. udev calls a script that calls modprobe. We
> are not talking about where the CURRENT frambuffer blacklist exists,
> because I'm sure we all agree it is inefficient and broken. I'm
> talking about where it SHOULD be.

A file which belongs to a package that will affect also an other is bad.
Placing it in kernel package is bad because it might interfere with an other 
kernel package.
Placing the file in udev affects all kernels the same and udev is our primary 
module loader for now.

greetings
tpowa

-- 
Tobias Powalowski
Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa)
http://www.archlinux.org
tpowa at archlinux.org
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