From: Johannes Erdfelt <johannes@erdfelt.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: modutils 2.4.2, please test asap
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 22:29:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-98020263824232@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-98018911111962@msgid-missing>
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001, Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 12:30:02 -0800,
> David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> wrote:
> >As it stands, we saw a bug report this morning about how 2.4 modutils
> >broke hotplugging with 2.2 kernels, since it created unusable (empty)
> >"usbmap" files ... you're not as backwards-compatible as you may
> >think you are!
>
> Switching between kernels is not supposed to require changes to user
> space utilities. Now you have to use modutils 2.3 on 2.2 kernels and
> modutils 2.4 on 2.4 kernels, that will really annoy people flipping
> from one kernel to the other. If somebody would tell me about these
> things then I could fix them! I even asked about 2.2 support for USB
> earlier in the week and got no replies. Where is the 2.2 backport for
> USB?
It was integrated into the main kernel tree somewhere in the 2.2.18 pre
patches.
JE
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-22 22:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-22 18:24 modutils 2.4.2, please test asap Keith Owens
2001-01-22 19:28 ` Keith Owens
2001-01-22 19:37 ` Miles Lane
2001-01-22 19:58 ` Stephen J. Gowdy
2001-01-22 20:05 ` Miles Lane
2001-01-22 20:16 ` Johannes Erdfelt
2001-01-22 20:30 ` David Brownell
2001-01-22 21:40 ` Keith Owens
2001-01-22 22:29 ` Johannes Erdfelt [this message]
2001-01-22 22:51 ` Keith Owens
2001-01-22 23:09 ` Greg KH
2001-01-22 23:21 ` David Brownell
2001-01-22 23:38 ` Miles Lane
2001-01-22 23:42 ` Keith Owens
2001-01-23 2:52 ` David Brownell
2001-01-23 3:25 ` Keith Owens
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