[RFC] Changing filter policy to 'strict' by default

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Thu May 28 20:27:11 UTC 2020


On Thu, 2020-05-28 at 15:09 +0200, Aleksander Morgado wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I'm going to suggest we change the filter policy to 'strict' when
> none
> explicitly requested. In the past 1.12 release we already suggested
> distributions to request 'strict' explicitly, so it's probably a good
> idea to move on and just make it the new default for 1.14.
> 
> Under the 'strict' filter, TTYs are only probed if there is clear
> indication that the device may be a modem. Also worth noting that the
> shipped udev tags that blacklist explicit devices per vid:pid are
> ignored under this mode.
> 
> The old default is renamed to 'legacy', and can still be selected
> with
> --filter-policy=LEGACY.
> 
> What do you all think? Please reply to the mailing list or add your
> comments in the gitlab merge request.

Works for me.

Dan



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