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

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Date:	Sun, 30 Jul 2006 21:50:25 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	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, 30 Jul 2006 21:35:42 -0700
Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:

> Remember, FC3 is now in Legacy support mode, not something the mainline
> kernel should have to worry about.

It's not specifically related to FC3.  It's udev - we've broken _any_
distribution which uses a two-year-old udev.  In fact we're proposing
breaking any distro which has an older-than-ten-month udev.  That's really
bad.

It's worse on FC3 because there is, as far as I can tell, no rpm or srpm
which can be used to unbreak it.  And pointing at Documentation/Changes
doesn't alter that, does it?

Personally, there's no way I'm upgrading this box because I _want_ to run
old distros to catch things like this.  So I'll hack it around to work
somehow.  I can do that, because I'm a developer. 

Are we going to stop doing this soon?
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