Bug#297481: hotplug: Fails to load firmware for ipw2200 after upgrade
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:41:29PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> 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.
Sounds suspiciously like it will alter the kernel ABI,
but if you have a patch please send it here.
--
Horms
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