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> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Kurt H Maier <khm@sdf.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 07:27:01PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
>>>
>>> Al, that -><- close to volunteering for maintaining that FPOS kernel-side...
>>>
>>
>> This would be fantastic.
>
> And that would solve this very much worrying issue [1], quoting:
> "(Yes, udev on non-systemd systems is in our eyes a dead end, in case you
> haven't noticed it yet. I am looking forward to the day when we can drop
> that support entirely.)"
>
> [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-August/006066.html

I think it's worth noting that even though udev 189 was recently released, 
the not-yet-released Ubuntu 10.10 is going to be including udev 175.

David Lang