Am Sonntag, 9. Oktober 2005 11:57 schrieb Anders Ellenshøj Andersen: > Udev in unstable now conflicts with hotplug. From what I can gather udev > has eaten up all of hotplugs functionallity, but I don't really have a clue > about what is going on. Since some important KDE stuff depends on all this > to work, I'd sure like if someone who knows this stuff could explain what > the h... is going on.
Sure, by upgrading, you loose all abilities to run linux-2.4.xx with hotplug functionality. You also agree to not run a linux kernel <2.6.12 because that won't work, too. Actually, you should run linux kernel 2.6.14 or higher. I know, doesn't exist, yet but that seems to be the attitude of the udev maintainer. Obviously, he lives in a perfect world, where all external kernel modules adapt to kernel changes very fast. Obviously, some DDs (e.g. the udev maintainer) gave up to make it possible to have more than one major kernel version installed (and still be able to run it properly). The udev package somewhat digs its own hole and I am glad that I did not change to udev. The udev package could also ask if you want to use hotplug or udev's coldplug, does it? (Can't tell because I don't have it installed). HS
