On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Walter Dnes wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 07:24:54PM -0500, Michael Mol wrote >>> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: >>>> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 09:20:42PM -0600, Dale wrote >>>>> Well, it appears we have someone willing to fork udev. Yeppie !! >>>>> Me, I'm looking forward to seeing how this works and giving it a test >>>>> run when it gets ready. Since it is a fork, shouldn't be to long, >>>>> I hope. >>>> BTW, this has hit Slashdot... >>>> http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/11/16/2052203/gentoo-developers-fork-udev >>> Be sure to read Richard Yao's response: >>> http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3256499&cid=42006113 >> I understand that he's still getting the effort organized. I am not a >> C programmer, but if the effort needs any beta testers, I'm willing to >> volunteer. BTW, it looks like Lennart Poettering is more unpopular than >> Steve Ballmer on Slashdot. >> > > Thing I like about the fork, if people get fed up with udev, udev falls > flat on its face or something else causes udev to fail, we have a udev > already ready. That statement may not be true for another couple months > or so but at least there is a Gentoo plan B. > > Also, I can get rid of dracut too. ;-) > > Walter, I wonder how much your work helped this along? If you had not > stepped up and did what you have done, then this fork may have never > happened. You could have at least let others know there are people > looking for something else. If so, thanks for that. :-D
I think Walter's work (and his dogged perseverance despite the negative reactions I'd seen) played a pivotal role in having this play out the way it did. If he hadn't, I'm sure the systemd+udev thing would have gotten worked out anyway, I'm not sure the solution would have come from within Gentoo, and would not have come in the form of a fork, had Walter's work not been so obvious a focal point. Thanks, Walter. *tips hat* -- :wq
