On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 09:05 +0200, gianluca wrote: > On 09/04/2014 06:14 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > >> Anyway I'm obliged to install squeeze because the software stack I will use > >> has not been ported and tested on wheezy yet. > > > > As far as I remember udev (squeeze based) will not work with a kernel > 3.2 as a deeply changes in ioctl in the kernel API. > Maybe you will need a newer udev too... You remember wrongly. > The revert is true: if you will use a 2.6.36 kernel in a Wheezy distro, > udev simply fail so any other script which need devpts, shm, and other > delights... In few words ALMOST EVERYTHING IS BROKEN. So far as I am aware, this is not true for Debian's kernel packages. The last time we had a udev/kernel incompatibility across releases was between lenny and squeeze: https://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#upgrading-udev Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Experience is directly proportional to the value of equipment destroyed. - Carolyn Scheppner
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