[systemd-devel] [PATCH] udev hwdb: Support shipping pre-compiled database in system images

[Michael Biebl]

2014-10-27 17:31 GMT+01:00 Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de>:
>
> Now, the distinction udevadm is supposed to make here though is very
> different, it is a distinction between /etc and /usr, i.e. between
> vendor data and local configuration. Using the word "system" to
> distuingish this is highly misleading hence.
> Still, --usr is the most appropriate name, even if on split-usr
> distros things might appear slightly weird then.

Quoting the udev man page:
      <para>The hwdb files are read from the files located in the
      system hwdb directory <filename>/usr/lib/udev/hwdb.d</filename>,

So naming that switch --system is only consistent if it acts on the
system hwdb files only.


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