> On Jan 16, Dietmar Maurer <diet...@proxmox.com> wrote: > > > > Not at all until the new RHEL will be released, because modern > versions > > > of udev (like the one in Debian testing/unstable) do not support > 2.6.18 > > > kernels. > > Really, do you have more information on that? > The current version of udev requires a kernel >= 2.6.26 (with > CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=n so the standard lenny kernel will not work > anyway). > This is caused by the need for features like CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER, > CONFIG_SIGNALFD and sysfs improvements so it cannot be resolved with > trivial patches (I already did this to not require 2.6.27). > > The last version which supports 2.6.18 is 145 and it cannot be used > with > squeeze anyway without a substantial effort because other packages > depend on newer versions. > > I am the maintainer of the Debian udev package and a frequent upstream > contributor.
Wow, that is very bad news - I guess there will be a major blocker for debian squeeze. What is the suggested workaround for people using older kernels? - Dietmar _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@openvz.org https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users
