Re: udev, module-init-tools, 2.6.14

[mikepolniak <mikpolniak@adelphia.net>]

On 15:09 Sun 20 Nov     , Jim McCloskey wrote:
> 
> Hello. For a variety of reasons, I want to install a hand-compiled
> (and patched) 2.6.14 kernel. I have two questions concerning that.
> 
> [1] At present, I have udev version 056 from stable, but the Changes
> file in the kernel documentation recommends at least udev 058. Testing
> and Unstable both have a much newer version of udev: 074. But when I
> try to install this version, apt wants to remove both the hotplug and
> module-init-tools packages. I gather that these later versions of udev
> are supposed to supplant hotplug. But surely module-init-tools should
> not be removed from the system? Can anyone shed any light on this?
> The changelog for udev includes:
> 
>       * Added conflicts with hotplug and with module-init-tools
>         releases without support for /etc/hotplug/blacklist.d/.
> 
> Does this mean that there is no way at present to have both udev and
> module-init-tools installed simultaneously in testing/unstable?
> 
I have been running my custom 2.6.14 kernel with udev 074 for a few
weeks. This latest version of udev removes hotplug and you can also remove
all references to hotplug in /etc/*

But i did not have any conflict with module-init-tools. So you should
not remove it. You could get around this by d/l the udev-074*.deb
and using dpkg to install it and then purge hotplug.

You can ask the udev developers about that ChangeLog on the list at
linux.hotplug.devel