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Bug 358409 - udev guide still mentions sysfs, has outdated information
Summary: udev guide still mentions sysfs, has outdated information
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: [OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Other documents (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: nm (RETIRED)
URL: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-gui...
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Reported: 2011-03-11 15:30 UTC by Sven Vermeulen
Modified: 2011-03-12 05:45 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Attachments
Patch for udev-guide.xml (udev-guide.patch,6.42 KB, patch)
2011-03-11 15:32 UTC, Sven Vermeulen
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Description Sven Vermeulen 2011-03-11 15:30:58 UTC
The current udev-guide.xml still mentions libsysfs and its "three subprojects". However, udev has evolved and now uses the uevent interface. namedev is not needed nor used anymore and libsysfs is also parked away.

Attached a patch to the udev-guide.xml containing the following changes:
- remove reference to namedev
- remove reference to libsysfs
- add short paragraph on uevent
- refer to /lib/udev/rules.d as well (next to /etc/udev/rules.d) [1]
- refer to the 10.0 profiles rather than 2007 (gentoo profiles)
- add notification about SYSFS_DEPRECATED (should not be set)
- drop the configuration section (to use udev-only system) as that is standard nowadays in Gentoo

[1] I am assuming that multilib users will know that this means /lib64/udev/rules.d on their systems...

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen 2011-03-11 15:32:15 UTC
Created attachment 265567 [details, diff]
Patch for udev-guide.xml

Content patch as suggested earlier in the bugreport.

Note that version/date has not been updated, please bump before committing :)
Comment 2 nm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-03-12 05:45:43 UTC
Fixed; thanks for the patch. Sorry for the lag; the CVS servers went down for maintenance just as I tried to commit the file.