[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] VIO on sparc / udev support

[Michael Biebl]

Am 13.05.2013 13:45, schrieb Julien Cristau:
> Michael,
> 
> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 02:51:51 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 
>>> Since no-one in the systemd/udev team is using SPARC hardware, I was
>>> wondering, if vio_type would have a better home in e.g. the sparc-utils
>>> [2] package, where it would be maintained and tested by people with
>>> knowledge of that architecture.
> 
> I don't think that would make much sense, and this belongs with the
> related utils in udev IMO.

Care to elaborate? That helper is highly sparc specific and it's an odd
one, which doesn't really fit into udev. E.g. it's built on all
architectures, then thrown away later during install. It's just weird.

Take s390 as an example: The s390 specific helpers and udev rules are
shipped in the s390-tools package and I think it would make a lot of
sense to do the same for sparc. Even if it would only be for
consistencies sake.

>>> Seeing a bug report like [3], it's not actually clear to me, if vio_type
>>> is still functional with newer kernel releases and for which type of
>>> hardware this is actually required. I poked Marco about this, but he
>>> doesn't remember the details anymore.
>>>
> 
> Your [3] points at an udev packaging bug.  How does it relate to "newer
> kernel releases"?  The hardware for which this is required was described
> in #526621, so I don't really get that question either...

Well, maybe the kernel got autoloading for that those types of devices,
who knows. Something similar happened for e.g. cpufreq drivers.
So I think this question is justified, if this helper is still required
today and for what setups.

Michael


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