Bug#297481: hotplug: Fails to load firmware for ipw2200 after upgrade
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 21:26 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
>reassign 297481 kernel-image-2.6.8-i386
>thanks
>
>On Mar 01, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
>
>> This kernel will not work correctly with managed events. It has holes in
>> the sequence numbers. You need at least 2.6.10 if I remember correctly.
>This sucks, because the next Debian release will ship 2.6.8 as the
>default 2.6 kernel. Do you know what needs to be backported to fix this?
It's all in lib/kobject_uevent.c and should be trivial. It was changed
to increment the seqnum counter only if the kset wants to emit the
event.
>What else does this break?
I should be safe, I think.
Kay
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