On 01/24/13 15:26, viv...@gmail.com wrote: >> If you're going to upgrade both anyway, you should be upgrading the >> kernel first. That way if you lose power or the system crashes, the box >> can reboot. >> > which can be the exact opposite order if instead you have to _disable_ a > feature in the kernel which would make udev not bootable. > Don't remember exactly what, but it happened in the past when Greg was > still maintainer and an obsolete feature was making udev confused. >
Suppose, you're on e.g. udev-1, and, * udev-2 requires CONFIG_FOO=n * udev-1 will not boot with CONFIG_FOO=y Then it doesn't make much sense to die without CONFIG_FOO=n, because it can't possibly exist. So we would warn with either a non-fatal config check or news item. Hopefully we would also execute the person responsible.