Re: [PATCH] hotplug/Linux: remove hotplug support, rely on udev instead

[Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>]

On Thu, Oct 18, Ian Campbell wrote:

> On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 15:46 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 12, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 15:14 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > > > The patch by itself will have no practical impact unless someone
> > > > attempts to build and run a Xen dom0 on a really old base system.
> > > 
> > > Does anyone have any idea what sort of timeframe hotplug agent stuff
> > > really died in, just so we can document something?
> > 
> > SLES9 (back in 2007) had an early version of udev, hotplug was still in
> > use. It looks like hotplug.rpm was finally dropped from SuSE Linux in 2005.
> 
> 2005 was after 2007 though?
> 
> Any way, I've added "e.g. circa SLES9/2007 or earlier" to the end of the
> commit message and will apply.

Thanks.
SLES9 was branched and released in July 2004, the last service pack #4
was released in December 2007.

Olaf