On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 02:33:38AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On Mar 19, Roger Leigh <rle...@codelibre.net> wrote: > > > With respect to #494001, I would like to determine the minimum > > > version of the linux kernel we will > > For the new udev package[1] I am trying *very* hard to keep it working > > even with 2.6.18 kernels long enough to be able to finish the upgrade, > > but I can tell you that 2.6.22 is currently required to support > > important features like persistent device names and this will only get > > "worse" with time so next year I may end out requiring 2.6.26 anyway. > > > > Also expect problems from a modern udev and lenny kernels, because they > > have CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED defined. > > > > I agree that there should be no version check in the init scripts, just > > symlink mtab and almost everything will work fine. > > So be it, then. Let's switch to the new mode unconditionally... since udev > is going to force our hands, might as well at least get something good out > of it and simplify things on the initscripts end. > > A NEWS entry will be required to warn people using older kernels, though.
Has any further progress been made on this? Are there any changes to the patch you are waiting on me for? Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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