linux-kernel - Re: Kubuntu's udev broken with 2.6.18-rc2-mm1

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Message-ID: <20060731075428.GA24584@outpost.ds9a.nl>
Date:	Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:54:28 +0200
From:	bert hubert <bert.hubert@...herlabs.nl>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	ajwade@...001346162bf9-cm0011ae8cd564.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com,
	laurent.riffard@...e.fr, andrew.j.wade@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kubuntu's udev broken with 2.6.18-rc2-mm1

On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 11:00:33PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> The impact is lower in this case because we've already trained our
> long-suffering users to expect udev to regularly break.

It has broken, even in 2.6.18-rc3, see http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/30/163
'2.6.18-rc3 does not like an old udev (071)' and beyond.

It now requires udev 079, in disaccordance with the Documentation/Changes
file.

This breaks Ubuntu LTS, which for some reason chose to ship udev 071.

Thanks.

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