From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750719AbVHPXJW (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Aug 2005 19:09:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750724AbVHPXJW (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Aug 2005 19:09:22 -0400 Received: from soundwarez.org ([217.160.171.123]:5076 "EHLO soundwarez.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750719AbVHPXJV (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Aug 2005 19:09:21 -0400 Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 01:09:20 +0200 From: Kay Sievers To: Greg KH Cc: Alistair John Strachan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: udev-067 and 2.6.12? Message-ID: <20050816230920.GA11750@vrfy.org> References: <200508162302.00900.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <20050816220544.GA28377@kroah.com> <200508162312.26972.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <20050816221450.GA28520@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050816221450.GA28520@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 03:14:50PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 11:12:26PM +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > On Tuesday 16 August 2005 23:05, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 11:02:00PM +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I just tried upgrading udev 053 to 067 on a 2.6.12 system and although > > > > the system booted, firmware_class failed to upload the firmware for my > > > > wireless card, prism54 was no longer auto loaded, etc. Even manually > > > > loading the driver didn't help. > > > > > > > > Any reason why 067 wouldn't work with 2.6.12? Do you have to do something > > > > special with hotplug prior to upgrading? > > > > > > What distro are you using? What rules file are you using? > > > > > > 067 should work just fine for you, it is for a lot of Gentoo and SuSE > > > users right now, on 2.6.12. > > > > > > > An LFS from April 05, with the stock 50-udev.rules, 25-lfs.rules (which > > doesn't do anything suspicious, I think; certainly nothing related to my > > problem). > > There are no "stock" udev rules anymore. That's probably the issue, all > of the distros made their own, so we provide them in the tarball. I > suggest you talk to the LFS people about this. > > > 25-lfs.rules does duplicate some of the things in 50-udev.rules, but I think > > that's deliberate (they want to interfere with the stock install as little as > > possible, and the overrides take precedence). I've put my /etc/udev directory > > unmodified up here: > > > > http://devzero.co.uk/~alistair/udev/ > > s/=/==/ for most of your rules and see if that works. > > > If I reinstall 053 and reboot, everything that's broken on 067 works again. Do > > you need a specific hotplug installed? Do you provide hooks for handling /etc/hotplug.d/? We are on the way of getting rid of that directory and recent udev versions don't handle that by default anymore. If you don't know, read the udev RELEASE-NOTES. Kay