[arch-general] udev rules policy

[David C. Rankin]

Tobias Powalowski wrote:
> Am Mittwoch 22 April 2009 schrieb Damjan Georgievski:
>> What is the policy for Udev rules in ArchLinux?
>>
>> There are 2 places where udev rules can be placed, /lib/udev/rules.d/
>> and /etc/udev/rules.d/.
>> Now, I think the /lib/ directory should be only for the rules coming
>> from upstream udev, and the /etc/ directory is for rules coming from
>> ArchLinux packages.
>>
>> If this is the policy everyone agrees on - and as far as I remember,
>> udev devs recommends it too - maybe namcap can check that too?
>>
>> ps.
>> the KVM package now has rules in /lib/ , so I'll open a bug report if
>> that's not supposed to be like that.
> Normally udev rules should go to /lib that the user can override them with 
> /etc rule file.
> 
> greetings
> tpowa
> 

	Looking at my openSuSE install, that seems to be the way it is done there:

/lib/udev
/lib/udev/ata_id
/lib/udev/bluetooth.sh
/lib/udev/bluetooth_serial
/lib/udev/cdrom_id
/lib/udev/collect
/lib/udev/create_floppy_devices
/lib/udev/devices
/lib/udev/devices/console
/lib/udev/devices/core
<snip>

	and then:

/etc/udev
/etc/udev/rules.d
/etc/udev/rules.d/40-alsa.rules
/etc/udev/rules.d/40-bluetooth.rules
/etc/udev/rules.d/40-suse.rules
/etc/udev/rules.d/40-zaptel.rules
<snip>
/etc/udev/udev.conf



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