[mythtv] Ticket #6137: udevinfo has been replaced by 'udevadm info'

[Michael T. Dean]

On 08/18/2009 06:53 PM, Nigel Pearson wrote:
>> Comment(by stuartm):
>>
>>  Is there not a proper udev lib and api we can use instead of calling on
>>  those applications or digging around /sys?
>
> 1) Last time I looked, the kernel had to be built with a
> particular set of options, there were several incompatible
> API versions, and I didn't want to add another configure +
> compile + run time dependency.
>
> The situation may be better now, but backwards compatibility
> will always be an issue.
>
>
> 2) None of my Linux boxes have libudev, or DBus/HAL,
> so I'm not personally keen to go in that direction. 

In the meantime--just so that we don't scare a lot of users ;)--what do 
you think about changing the "Error - udevinfo failed" messages to 
VB_MEDIA (or something besides VB_IMPORTANT and VB_GENERAL) so it's not 
output by default?

Mike