[arch-general] udev rules policy

[Aaron Griffin]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:22 AM, David C. Rankin
<drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Actually, that's not the same. I have a suspicion suse's udev is far
older, but the dir we're looking at should be /lib/udev/rules.d vs
/etc/udev/rules.d