From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754306AbZJYWg7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:36:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754258AbZJYWg7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:36:59 -0400 Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out4.iinet.net.au ([203.59.1.104]:53703 "EHLO outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out4.iinet.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754234AbZJYWg6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:36:58 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AtwAAK5v5Ep8qNN0/2dsb2JhbAAI1XaEPwSCXQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,621,1249228800"; d="scan'208";a="476292421" Subject: Re: udev in kernel source? From: Ben Nizette To: Martin Steigerwald Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200910251834.06321.Martin@lichtvoll.de> References: <200910251834.06321.Martin@lichtvoll.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:37:56 +1100 Message-Id: <1256510276.9801.126.camel@ben-desktop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 18:33 +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > There should be an easy way to figure out whether kernel and deeply related > userspace tools are matching each other. There are more tools than just udev which fail to work on various kernel configurations and versions, though granted udev might be one of the most "deeply related" ones. Shipping a matching set isn't the kernel's job, that's the point of formal distributions :-). Maybe your real beef is with udev documentation which should give you info regarding what udev/kernel pairings should work? --Ben.