On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Thomas Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aaron Griffin schrieb: >> >> Thanks Eric for being on the ball. I didn't check for a new version today. >> >> Pushed to testing. >> Some important changes: >> * Stock rules are not in /lib/udev/rules.d/ >> * /etc/udev/rules.d is still respected and should be used for non-stock >> rules >> * Custom readme moved to /usr/share/udev. slated for removal later >> (man pages are superior) >> * Improved stock rules, will eventually need to clean up our Arch rules... >> * Possibly others. >> >> Please test and let me know how it goes. >> >> Also, a x86_64 build would be nice. > > Changes compared to -1: > - Fixed path: /lib/pkgconfig -> /usr/lib/pkgconfig > - Rewrote load-modules.sh: > + Fixes http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10972 > This adds a new resolve-modalias binary, which resolves an alias > without resolving the dependencies (modprobe can't do that). If you > have a device which can be used by modules A and B, blacklisting A > will no longer result in B being blacklisted with it. > resolve-modalias has gcc-libs as a dependency, but gcc-libs is in > base anyway, so it shouldn't matter. > + Adds more comprehensive messages to /var/log/everything.log > including a reason why a module hasn't been loaded. > + If you want to disable a device completely, you can blacklist the > modalias to prevent all matching modules from being loaded. > This should make rc.conf blacklisting way more intuitive. > - Fixed 80-drivers.rules: This was horribly broken, as modprobe was > often called instead of load-modules.sh and thus blacklisting was > completely disabled in -1, > - Add only framebuffer drivers to the framebuffer blacklist, not random > modules containing the string 'fb'
Thanks for the rewrite Thomas. Has this sped anything up for you? I know my udev time on boot is usually between 4s and 6s, so I'll see if this affects anything when I reboot