From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751109AbVHPWLy (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:11:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751114AbVHPWLy (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:11:54 -0400 Received: from mail.metronet.co.uk ([213.162.97.75]:22930 "EHLO mail.metronet.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751109AbVHPWLx (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:11:53 -0400 From: Alistair John Strachan To: Greg KH Subject: Re: udev-067 and 2.6.12? Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 23:12:26 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.90 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200508162302.00900.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <20050816220544.GA28377@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20050816220544.GA28377@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508162312.26972.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 16 August 2005 23:05, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 11:02:00PM +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I just tried upgrading udev 053 to 067 on a 2.6.12 system and although > > the system booted, firmware_class failed to upload the firmware for my > > wireless card, prism54 was no longer auto loaded, etc. Even manually > > loading the driver didn't help. > > > > Any reason why 067 wouldn't work with 2.6.12? Do you have to do something > > special with hotplug prior to upgrading? > > What distro are you using? What rules file are you using? > > 067 should work just fine for you, it is for a lot of Gentoo and SuSE > users right now, on 2.6.12. > An LFS from April 05, with the stock 50-udev.rules, 25-lfs.rules (which doesn't do anything suspicious, I think; certainly nothing related to my problem). 25-lfs.rules does duplicate some of the things in 50-udev.rules, but I think that's deliberate (they want to interfere with the stock install as little as possible, and the overrides take precedence). I've put my /etc/udev directory unmodified up here: http://devzero.co.uk/~alistair/udev/ If I reinstall 053 and reboot, everything that's broken on 067 works again. Do you need a specific hotplug installed? -- Cheers, Alistair. 'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.' Third year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.