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Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 21:46:47 +0200
From: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
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Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: 2.6.10-rc1-bk8: hotplug breakage
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Hi Greg,

this patch:

http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/diffs/lib/kobject_uevent.c@1.10

broke hotplug (the firmware loader in my case),
because the SEQNUM env var will now overwrite an
env var added by hotplug_ops->hotplug() (e.g. FIRMWARE).

Johannes