From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:41:29 +0000 Subject: Re: Bug#297481: hotplug: Fails to load firmware for ipw2200 after Message-Id: <1109709689.481.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: References: <20050301192504.GA24710@wonderland.linux.it> In-Reply-To: <20050301192504.GA24710@wonderland.linux.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 21:26 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: >reassign 297481 kernel-image-2.6.8-i386 >thanks > >On Mar 01, Kay Sievers wrote: > >> This kernel will not work correctly with managed events. It has holes in >> the sequence numbers. You need at least 2.6.10 if I remember correctly. >This sucks, because the next Debian release will ship 2.6.8 as the >default 2.6 kernel. Do you know what needs to be backported to fix this? It's all in lib/kobject_uevent.c and should be trivial. It was changed to increment the seqnum counter only if the kset wants to emit the event. >What else does this break? I should be safe, I think. Kay ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel