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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:30:18 +0200
From: "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
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On 31/07/06, bert hubert <bert.hubert@netherlabs.nl> wrote:
> 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.
>
It'll probably also cause trouble for the upcomming release of Slackware.
Slackware 11 is just around the corner and slackware-current currently
has udev 071. The kernel is 2.4.32 or 2.6.17.7 (user choice), but I'll
bet many people will want to install newer kernels.

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