From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750926AbWGaHys (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 03:54:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751254AbWGaHys (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 03:54:48 -0400 Received: from outpost.ds9a.nl ([213.244.168.210]:36511 "EHLO outpost.ds9a.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750926AbWGaHyr (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 03:54:47 -0400 Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:54:28 +0200 From: bert hubert To: Andrew Morton Cc: Greg KH , ajwade@cpe001346162bf9-cm0011ae8cd564.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com, laurent.riffard@free.fr, andrew.j.wade@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kubuntu's udev broken with 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 Message-ID: <20060731075428.GA24584@outpost.ds9a.nl> Mail-Followup-To: bert hubert , Andrew Morton , Greg KH , ajwade@cpe001346162bf9-cm0011ae8cd564.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com, laurent.riffard@free.fr, andrew.j.wade@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20060727015639.9c89db57.akpm@osdl.org> <44CCBBC7.3070801@free.fr> <20060731000359.GB23220@kroah.com> <200607302227.07528.ajwade@cpe001346162bf9-cm0011ae8cd564.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com> <20060731033757.GA13737@kroah.com> <20060730212227.175c844c.akpm@osdl.org> <20060731043542.GA9919@kroah.com> <20060730215025.44292f9c.akpm@osdl.org> <20060731051547.GB29058@kroah.com> <20060730230033.cc4fc190.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060730230033.cc4fc190.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 11:00:33PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > The impact is lower in this case because we've already trained our > long-suffering users to expect udev to regularly break. It has broken, even in 2.6.18-rc3, see http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/30/163 '2.6.18-rc3 does not like an old udev (071)' and beyond. It now requires udev 079, in disaccordance with the Documentation/Changes file. This breaks Ubuntu LTS, which for some reason chose to ship udev 071. Thanks. -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software http://netherlabs.nl Open and Closed source services