Bug#398924: Conflict between Gnome, udev, hotplug and linux-2.4
- To: Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>
- Cc: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>, 398924@bugs.debian.org, Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>, pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org, sjoerd@debian.org, slomo@ubuntu.com, biebl@debian.org, ukai@debian.or.jp
- Subject: Bug#398924: Conflict between Gnome, udev, hotplug and linux-2.4
- From: md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri)
- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:49:21 +0100
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20061117104921.GA25690@bongo.bofh.it>
- Reply-to: md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri), 398924@bugs.debian.org
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On Nov 17, Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> wrote:
> We have one problematic case, though: Upgrades from 2.2 to 2.6 on an
> arch without 2.4-kernels. Do we need udev-backports for them?
Why? 2.2 kernels do not have enough hotplug support that IIRC even if
hotplug were installed it would be useless.
And udev can be installed on *any* kernel (as long as it is not already
running), it will just disable itself until the system is rebooted with
a recent enough kernel.
--
ciao,
Marco
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- Bug#398924: Conflict between Gnome, udev, hotplug and linux-2.4
- From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
- Bug#398924: Conflict between Gnome, udev, hotplug and linux-2.4
- From: md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri)
- Bug#398924: Conflict between Gnome, udev, hotplug and linux-2.4
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- Bug#398924: Conflict between Gnome, udev, hotplug and linux-2.4
- From: Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>