Am Donnerstag 22 Januar 2009 18:57:19 schrieb Alon Bar-Lev: > On 1/22/09, Andreas Jellinghaus <[email protected]> wrote: > > using udev was a huge pain for many years, everytime I thought "now it > > works", a few months later openct didn't work with the new udev. I'm > > sick of that pain, and since the udev/hotplug/linux-usb folks tell us to > > use hal, and hal seems to work, I think it is best to take their advice > > and do that: use hal! > > It works correctly for me. > Maybe I miss something. > The changes in udev were minor and were not a reason to add more > dependency.
some combination of udev rules found in the real world, would cause udev to call the openct udev script before udev created the device file in /dev/bus/usb. at the same time distributions stopped using /proc/bus/usb (because they could put ACLs on /dev/bus/usb and favored it that way). sure, even such race conditions could be worked around (fork, sleep 1 sec, now the device should be there), but it still was annoying. this is only one example how openct got broken by udev. another time an essential info passed from kernel to userland for the hotplug events was missing, and needed to be re-added later. anyway, old stories, long closed. using hald is supported upstream and easier, thus it is the recommend way from my point of view. Regards, Andreas _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
