From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:38:52 +0000
Subject: Re: Need help to get udev/hotplug working for extra module inearly
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On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 09:39:36AM +0200, Holland, John wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > nobody here who can give me a hint? Should I ask this on the kernel
> > > mailing list instead?
> >
> > Probably no one really cares about such old and unmaintained systems
> > anymore, sorry.
> 
> That's not necessarily true. Many embedded systems continue to use older
> kernels, even for new development. The devices with which I'm continually
> confronted, use kernels 2.6.1[23] the newest of which is 2.6.19.

And that's their own fault, the kernel community has long had the
opinion that this is not a good thing to do.

If you are using such a kernel, then you need to rely on the support
from your vendor, the community can't help you out, sorry.

> You may want to check out mdev of a recent busybox version.

I don't see how that is relevant to the issue addressed here.  mdev is
just what udev was 2-3 years ago, nothing more.

thanks,

greg k-h