[oe] machine-specific udev packages

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 08:10 +0200, pHilipp Zabel wrote:
> I only recently noticed that udev packages are machine specific now
> due to the machine specific mount.blacklist file. It looks like most
> machines blacklist the same devices, namely:
> 
> /dev/mtdblock*
> /dev/loop*
> /dev/ram*
> 
> Only spitz and slugos differ significantly.
> (/dev/hda* on spitz, hd[a-z], sd[a-z] on slugos)
> 
> I'd like to add /dev/mtdblock to the default mount.blacklist and
> remove the specialization for akita, amsdelta, c7x0, h2200,
> ipaq-pxa270 and tosa.
> 
> Is there any good way to avoid spitz and slugos specific udev packages
> that are only due mount.blacklist? Maybe this could be part of
> base-files or some other package?

Personally, I'd like to see several things happen. Firstly, if these
lists are going to be machine specific, lets move them to something like
base-files and make sure the scripts can survive without them. This
means udev stops being machine specific. Alternatively, we create a new
machine specific package if people don't want the extra file in
base-files.

Secondly, I'd prefer to see this change to a whitelist approach. We also
need to be more intelligent about automounting eg, not mounting /dev/hda
when its partitioned and hda1, hda2 are present etc.

Cheers,

Richard