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

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Message-ID: <9a8748490607310130h312c9b84jec08d9f2f9b629fd@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:30:18 +0200
From:	"Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
To:	"bert hubert" <bert.hubert@...herlabs.nl>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>, "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 31/07/06, bert hubert <bert.hubert@...herlabs.nl> wrote:
> 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.
>
It'll probably also cause trouble for the upcomming release of Slackware.
Slackware 11 is just around the corner and slackware-current currently
has udev 071. The kernel is 2.4.32 or 2.6.17.7 (user choice), but I'll
bet many people will want to install newer kernels.

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